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 7

Responses of WBGT’s components (top: wet-bulb temperature, middle: globe temperature, and bottom: air temperature) to the compact (left) and the dispersed (right) city urban scenarios. All responses are August daytime averages and are relative to the status quo scenario in the future climate.

(a) (compact)

(b) (dispersed)

(c) (compact)

(d) (dispersed)

(e) (compact)

(f) (dispersed)