Research Article

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 2

Impacts of the future alternative urban scenarios (dispersed and compact city scenarios) on wet-bulb temperature (), air temperature (), and vapor pressure (Vp), each averaged over the model grid points with statistically significant responses in southern Chiba (area denoted by black circles in Figures 6(c) and 6(d)).

[°C] [°C]Vp [hPa]

Dispersed−0.520.16−1.44
Compact0.39−0.011.02