Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: An interdisciplinary review

TS Eisenman, G Churkina, SP Jariwala… - Landscape and urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
A “call to action” has been issued for scholars in landscape and urban planning, natural
science, and public health to conduct interdisciplinary research on the human health effects …

Integrated assessment of urban overheating impacts on human life

N Nazarian, ES Krayenhoff, B Bechtel… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major
contemporary challenge that substantially impacts urban livability and sustainability …

[HTML][HTML] Air quality affected by trees in real street canyons: The case of Marylebone neighbourhood in central London

APR Jeanjean, R Buccolieri, J Eddy, PS Monks… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the combined influence of building morphology and trees on air
pollutant concentrations in the Marylebone neighbourhood (central London). Computational …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollution removal through deposition on urban vegetation: The importance of vegetation characteristics

J Linden, M Gustafsson, J Uddling, Å Watne… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban vegetation has the potential to improve air quality as it promotes pollutant deposition
and retention. Urban air quality models often include the effect vegetation have on pollution …

Review on urban tree modelling in CFD simulations: Aerodynamic, deposition and thermal effects

R Buccolieri, JL Santiago, E Rivas… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current parameterizations developed and implemented within
Computational Fluid Dynamics models for the study of the effects linking vegetation, mainly …

City-descriptive input data for urban climate models: Model requirements, data sources and challenges

V Masson, W Heldens, E Bocher, M Bonhomme… - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
Cities are particularly vulnerable to meteorological hazards because of the concentration of
population, goods, capital stock and infrastructure. Urban climate services require multi …

Observationally constrained modeling of atmospheric oxidation capacity and photochemical reactivity in Shanghai, China

J Zhu, S Wang, H Wang, S Jing, S Lou… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
An observation-based model coupled to the Master Chemical Mechanism (V3. 3.1) and
constrained by a full suite of observations was developed to study atmospheric oxidation …

The impact of trees on street ventilation, NOx and PM2. 5 concentrations across heights in Marylebone Rd street canyon, central London

R Buccolieri, APR Jeanjean, E Gatto… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the effects of trees (Platanus x hispanica) of different leaf area density
on ventilation, NO x and PM 2.5 concentrations across heights in Marylebone Rd street …

The impact of roadside trees on traffic released PM10 in urban street canyon: Aerodynamic and deposition effects

F Xue, X Li - Sustainable cities and society, 2017 - Elsevier
Tree planting has the potential to affect local air quality by both aerodynamic and deposition
effects. However, most of the previous studies have failed to take deposition effect into …

The right tree for the right street canyons: An approach of tree species selection for mitigating air pollution

Y Guo, Q Xiao, C Ling, M Teng, P Wang, Z Xiao… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Trees planted in street canyons affect the dispersion and deposition of air pollutants
primarily through their aerodynamic and deposition effects to change the air quality …