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 2

Spatial distributions of urban parameters: (a) urban fraction (UF) and (d) anthropogenic heat release (AH) for the status quo scenario. Differences of UF and AH relative to the status quo scenario are shown in (b) and (e), respectively, for the compact city scenario and in (c) and (f), respectively, for the dispersed city scenario (adapted and modified from [15]).

(a) UF (status quo)

(b) ΔUF (compact)

(c) ΔUF (dispersed)

(d) AH (status quo)

(e) ΔAH (compact)

(f) ΔAH (dispersed)