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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 Science & Technology, 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.