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A scaling law for predicting urban trees canopy cooling efficiency.

Jia Wang¹, Weiqi Zhou^1,2,3, Steward T A Pickett⁴

¹State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.

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Summary

Increasing urban tree canopy (UTC) cools cities. This study reveals how cooling efficiency scales with urban tree canopy size, enabling city-wide temperature reduction predictions for effective heat mitigation strategies.

Keywords:

cooling efficiency nature-based solution urban heat island urban tree canopy (UTC)

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Urban Climatology
Environmental Science
Sustainable Urban Planning

Background:

Urban heat poses significant risks to human health and city sustainability.
Tree planting is a key nature-based solution for urban heat mitigation.
Existing cooling efficiency data is limited to small scales, hindering city-wide policy development.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a method for predicting the cooling efficiency of urban tree canopy (UTC) at the city scale.
To investigate the scaling relationship of cooling efficiency (CE) with increasing spatial scale.
To provide policymakers with tools for setting effective UTC goals.

Main Methods:

Developed a novel method to analyze the scaling relations of cooling efficiency (CE).
Examined CE across various spatial scales, from small analytical units to entire cities.
Validated the power-law scaling across diverse city climates and summer weather conditions.

Main Results:

Cooling efficiency (CE) follows a power-law relationship as spatial scale increases.
This power-law scaling was consistent across cities with different climates during summer daylight hours.
The power-law form proved robust under varying summer weather conditions within cities.

Conclusions:

The power-law scaling approach enables accurate prediction of CE at the whole-city scale.
This method offers a valuable tool for urban managers to establish UTC targets for heat mitigation.
Findings support evidence-based policymaking for enhancing urban sustainability and resilience to heat.