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="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> </td><td align="center">Period </td><td align="left">Initial/boundary conditions </td><td align="center">Urban scenario </td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Current </td><td align="center">2000–2009 </td><td align="left">NCEP-FNL reanalysis </td><td align="center">Status quo </td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="3">Future </td><td align="center" rowspan="3">2070–2079 (SRES A1B) </td><td align="left" rowspan="3">Pseudo-global-warming data based on MRI-CGCM2.3.2 </td><td align="center">Status quo </td></tr><tr><td align="center">Compact city </td></tr><tr><td align="center">Dispersed city </td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Summary of dynamical downscaling experiments. 

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Table 1: 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 1 | 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 