1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Relationship between Land Uses and heat fluxes at the ground surface

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06650651
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Architectural environment/equipment
Research Institution	Utsunomiya University
Principal Investigator	OKA Tatsuo Utsunomiya University, Department of Architecture, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (10185407)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1995
Keywords	Land use / Heat fiuxes / Tenperature distribution
Research Abstract	We made researches in order to get the relation between the air temperature and the land use. Analysis for this report was made by using data from the west of Hokkaido, Tokyo, Nagano, etc, and a regression analysis between the temperature and the land use. In this analysis, the land use is classified into four kinds (1. artifical area, 2. agriculturally cultivated area, 3. forest land, 4. water area) and the height above the sea level is also considered. The study led to the following result. 1) The artificial area always tends to raise the air temperature and the agriculturally cultivated area lower. 2) The influence of the forest land on it is small. 3) The water area intensely influences on the minimum temperature. 4) The height above the sea level makes the temperature lower, approximately 0.6ﾟC per 100 meters rise.