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

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2015/693754/figures/693754.fig.003a.svgz" name="693754.fig.003a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>WRF simulation</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2015/693754/figures/693754.fig.003b.svgz" name="693754.fig.003b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>AMeDAS observations</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2015/693754/figures/693754.fig.003c.svgz" name="693754.fig.003c" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(c) </b>Scatter diagram</td></tr></table>

<div>Spatial distributions of August daytime mean air temperature for the current climate (2000–2009) from (a) WRF simulation and (b) AMeDAS observations. A scatter diagram for the simulated and the observed air temperatures is shown in (c).</div>

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Figure 3: 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 3 | 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 