Estimating the effect of vegetation on urban temperatures

Thesis focused on the mitigation of Urban Heat Island, this phenomenon can define as temperature in the city core always higher than rural areas by 7 oC or more in some mega cities like Melbourne which I use it as a large case study. The mitigation process studied the effect of 27 parks on air and surface temperature during the course of one year. In addition, the other weather parameters such as wind speed, humidity and precipitation were measured for different distance from the edge of parks towards many sights inbound and outbound. Vegetation within parks can be designed in the city core and far could reach to 9 km to diminish temperature up to 5 oC from the park edges to 3 km.