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Urban Climatic Analysis Mapping of Kuala Lumpur City

Nurul Amirah Isa, Wan Mohd Naim Wan Mohd, Siti Aekbal Salleh and Nur Atikah Md Nasrudin

Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 25, Issue S, February 2017

Keywords: Dynamic Potential, Thermal Load, Urban Climatic Analysis Map, urban planning, urbanization

Published on: 11 Sep 2017

As Malaysia envisions its cities to be environmentally-friendly the concept of Urban Climatic Mapping should be introduced as a guide in assisting urban planners. This paper aims to generate the Urban Climatic Analysis Map (UC-AnMap) of Kuala Lumpur City. It uses the Geographical Information System as the analysis platform together with available data sets of Kuala Lumpur to generate the urban climatic map. To generate UC-AnMap two main analyses involved are Thermal Load and Dynamic Potential were used. Using the combination of the two key analyses, the UC-AnMap of Kuala Lumpur is produced and climatically sensitive areas of the city produced.

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JSSH-S0371-2016

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