ESTUDO CIENCIOMÉTRICO SOBRE ILHAS DE CALOR URBANAS E ZONAS CLIMÁTICAS LOCAIS

Abstract

The change of natural surfaces by built urban areas alters climatic factors such as air temperature and relative humidity. Since the 1950s, thermal variations in traditional climatology studies are analyzed from the difference between the urban and rural thermal fields, related to the intensity of the urban heat island (ICU), leading to the simplification of this phenomenon and the landscape reality of the city and its surroundings. The "Local Climate Zones" method (LCZ) by Stewart and Oke (2012) appears as an attempt to standardize and advance the degree of detail of the thermal field analyzes from the landscape classification. In this sense, the objectives of this study were: to identify articles and review articles published using the term "Urban Heat Island" OR "UHI", inserted in title, abstract and / or keywords; identify the number of articles and review articles using the term "Urban Heat Island * OR" UHI "AND" Local Climate Zones "OR" LCZ ", inserted in title, abstract and / or keywords and the concentration of this scientific production by country and by author; to elaborate a systematization of the main criteria adopted in the articles filtered for the bibliographic Portfólio. From this research it was possible to interpret the degree of relevance of this term for research in urban climatology and to obtain support material for future research.