Assessment of the Impact of Metropolitan-Scale Urban Planning Scenarios on the Moist Thermal Environment under Global Warming: A Study of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Using Regional Climate Modeling

Figure 10

Scatter diagrams of August mean daytime average vapor pressure (Vp) and air temperature () responses to alternative urban scenarios; (a) compact and (b) dispersed. Responses are relative to the status quo urban scenario in the future climate. Blue dots are values from model grid points with statistically significant WBGT responses shown in Figures 6(c) and 6(d).

(a) Compact

(b) Dispersed