No | Authors & Year | Title | citations | Norm Citation | Keywords | Main focus and findings |
6. | | Assessment of measured and perceived microclimates within a tropical urban forest | 50 | 1.75 | Urban parks, outdoor thermal comfort, tropical microclimate | Street trees with medium dense canopy greatly reduces heat stress in the streets. |
7. | | Effect of urban design on microclimate and thermal comfort outdoors in warm-humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 46 | 1.68 | Urban design, urban microclimate, and outdoor comfort, urban morphologies, warm-humid city | Vegetation—Measured and perceived thermal comfort are found to be significantly different, humidity and wind conditions are potentially critical for tropical thermal comfort. |
8. | | Outdoor thermal comfort in different urban settings of sub-tropical high-density cities: an approach of adopting local climate zone (LCZ) classification | 31 | 1.50 | Outdoor thermal comfort local climate zone subjective thermal perception microclimatic conditions sub-tropical high-density cities | Morphology & vegetation—Low-rise buildings create more stressful urban spaces compared to high-rise, trees with high canopy density improve OTC conditions, but vegetation might negatively affect the wind ventilation. |
9. | | Influence of blue infrastructure on lawn thermal microclimate in a subtropical green space | 8 | 1.03 | Pond microclimate waterbody cooling effect blue infrastructure urban heat island universal thermal climate index thermal comfort | Morphology—People perceive warmer sensation in a compact or high-rise setting, variations of urban settings differently affect the relationship between thermal stress and subjective thermal sensation, future research is required determine how LCZ classification system can be applied at individual levels and later to inform urban design practices. |
10. | | A simplified assessment of how tree allocation, wind environment, and shading affect human comfort | 30 | 1.05 | Wind environment, and shading, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), human comfort, microclimate, standard effective temperature (SET*), wind environment | Water bodies—Small shallow pond has reduced air temperature at downwind lawn area by 0.7˚C on a sunny day, deeper and more dynamic waterbodies could be more effective being incorporated with tree shading and natural surfaces. |