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Refereed papers

  • Mavrogianni A., Davies M., Wilkinson P., and Pathan, A., (2010), London housing and climate change: impact on comfort and health. Open House. In press.
  • Mavrogianni A,  Davies M., Batty M., Belcher S.E., Bohnenstengel S.I., Carruthers D., Chalabi, Z., Croxford B., Demanuele C., Evans S., Giridharan R.,Hacker J.N., Hamilton I., Hogg C., Hunt J., Kolokotroni M., Martin C, Milner J., Rajapaksha I, Ridley I., Steadman J.P., Stocker J., Wilkinson P. and Ye Z., (2010) The comfort, energy and health implications of London’s urban heat island. BSERT. In press.
  • Mavrogianni A., Chalabi Z., Davies M. Wilkinson P., Kolokotroni M and Milner J.,(2009), Space heating demand and heatwave vulnerability: London domestic stock, Building Research and Information, 37(5-6) pp 583 – 597
  • Davies M., Steadman J. P. and Oreszczyn T., (2009), Urban Climate and Built Environment, Chapter in Mumovic,D., Santamouris,M. (ed.) A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design & Engineering. . ISBN: 978-1-84407-596-6.
  • Giridharan R and Kolokotroni M, (2009).  Urban heat island characteristics in London during winter. Solar Energy, Volume 83, Issue9, September 2009, pp 1668-1682
  • Hamilton I., Davies M., Steadman P., Stone A., Ridley I. and Evans S., (2009), The Significance of the Anthropogenic Heat Emissions of London’s Buildings:  A Comparison Against Captured Shortwave Solar Radiation, Building and Environment. 44 pp. 807-817.
  • Kolokotroni M., Zhang Y. and Giridharan R., (2009), Heating and cooling degree day prediction within the London urban heat island area. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 20
    Mavrogianni  A., and Davies M.,(2009), The development of a GIS-based 'bottom-up' urban scale domestic energy use and CO2 emissions model of London, IBPSA Building Simulation conference, Glasgow, 2009.
  • Mavrogianni A., Chalabi Z., Davies M. Wilkinson P. and Kolokotroni M.,(2009), The development of a GIS-based 'bottom-up' urban scale domestic energy use model and heat wave vulnerability index of London. PLEA 2009.
  • Hamilton I. and Davies M.,(2009), The energy consumption of the urban built form and the availability of onsite incident energy resources: Balancing yield and demand in order to achieve zero-carbon communities. PLEA 2009.
  • Porson, A., Harman, I.N., Bohnenstengel, S.I. & Belcher, S.E. (2009) How many facets are needed to represent the surface energy balance in urban areas? Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 132, 107-128.
  • Porson A, Clark PA, Harman IN, Best MJ, Belcher SE.  (2009), Implementation of a New Urban Scheme in the MetUM. Part II: Validation against observations and model intercomparison. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. 2009c; in press. 
  • S.I. Bohnenstengel, A. Porson, M. Davies, P. Clark, S.E. Belcher: Spatial structure of the London urban heat island: the LUCID project, ICUC-7: The 7th international conference on urban climate, Yokohama, 29.06.-03.07.2009.
  • S.I. Bohenstengel, A. Porson, P. Clark, S.E. Belcher: Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas, 89. AMS annual meeting, Phoenix, 11.-15. January 2009.
  • S.I Bohnenstengel, A. Porson, P. Clark, M. Davies, S.E. Belcher: Simulations of the London urban climate: the LUCID project, 89. AMS annual meeting, Phoenix, 11.-15. January 2009.
  • S.E. Belcher, J. Barlow, M. Best, S.I. Bohnenstengel, P. Clark, I. Harman, A. Porson, C. Wood: Simulating London’s climate with the Unified Model, NCAS staff Meeting, Oxford, 10.-11.11.2009.
  • Davies M., Steadman J. P. and Oreszczyn T., (2008), Strategies for the modification of the urban climate and the consequent impact on building energy use, Energy Policy, 36 pp. 4548-4551.
  • Hamilton I., Davies M., Steadman P., Stone A., Ridley I. and Evans S., (2008), London’s Anthropogenic Heat Emissions – Implications for Building Design, World Renewable Energy Congress X, Glasgow.
  • Kolokotroni M. and Giridharan R,. (2008), Urban Heat Island Intensity in London: An investigation of the impact of physical characteristics on changes in outdoor air temperature during summer, Solar Energy, 82 pp. 986-998.
  • Renganathan G. and Kolokotroni M., (2008), Urban heat island characteristics in London during the heating season, Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference , Dublin, Ireland.

Other publications

  • Davies M. (2008) - contribution to Heatwave Plan for England 2008, Department of Health.

Presentations

  • London’s Urban Heat Island - presentation given by M. Davies to European Space Agency  Symposium, Athens, 2007.
  • Building Performance - presentation given by M. Davies to APRIL (Air Pollution Research in London), Climate Change: Thinking through some strategies for London, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, 2007.
  • The London Heat Island and building design - presentation given by M. Kolokotroni to Hot places – Cool spaces, Symposium on climate change and heat in urban areas, Amsterdam, 2007.
  • LUCID - presentation given by M. Davies to Greater London Authority event ‘Predicting London’s Future Climate’, London, 2007.
  • Low carbon buildings: impact of the local climate - presentation given by M. Davies to CIBSE / IBPSA Low Carbon Buildings Symposium: Design, Operational Performance, and the Future Challenges, London, 2008.
  • The London Heat Island and its effect on building ventilation and passive design strategies - presentation given by M. Kolokotroni to the CIBSE seminar on Natural Ventilation Solutions For Urban Designs to incorporate Acoustic Considerations, Natural History Museum, London, 2008.
  • Simulations of the London urban climate: The LUCID project - Bohnenstengel, S.I., Porson, A., Clark, P., Davies, M. and S.E. Belcher:, 89. Annual AMS meeting, Phoenix, 11.-15.01.2009
  • Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas - Bohnenstengel, S., Porson, A., Clark, P. and S.E. Belcher, 89. Annual AMS Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, 11.-15.01.2009