Long-term changes of meteorological conditions of urban heat island development in the region of Debrecen, Hungary

László, Elemér and Bottyán, Zsolt and Szegedi, Sándor (2016) Long-term changes of meteorological conditions of urban heat island development in the region of Debrecen, Hungary. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY, 124 (1-2). pp. 365-373. ISSN 0177-798X

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Abstract

Meteorological conditions have a remarkable im-pact on urban climate similarly to other local and microscale climates. Clear skies and calm weather are advantageous for the development of the urban heat island (UHI). There are numerous studies on the spatial and temporal features of the phenomenon. Much less attention is paid, however, to the meteorological conditions of UHI development. The aim of the present paper is to reveal the characteristics of the changes in the frequencies of advantageous and disadvantageous me-teorological conditions for UHI development on the basis of a 50-year-long time series. Meteorological condition categories of UHI development have been established on the basis of wind speed values, cloudiness, and precipitation ranging from advantageous to disadvantageous conditions. Frequencies of occurrence of condition categories of UHI development were determined first. Advantageous and moderately advantageous conditions were found to be dominant in the time series. Linear trend analysis revealed a significant increasing trend in the time series of advantageous conditions. Increase of the frequencies of advantageous conditions was analyzed for the years, seasons, and months of the study period as well. Spring and summer (April and June) produced significant increasing trends of frequencies of advantageous conditions, while winter (with the exception of February) and autumn did not show significant increase of those frequencies. Change-point anal-yses detected a significant increase in the frequency of advan-tageous conditions in the time series at the turn of 1981/1982 especially in the summer and spring months. Detected tenden-cies have negative effects on urban energy consumption: they contribute to the increase of air conditioning energy demand in the summer and do not decrease the energy demand of heating in the winter significantly.

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