The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and  user-friendly model of city cooling

Broadbent, Ashley M.; Coutts, Andrew M.; Nice, Kerry A.; Demuzere, Matthias; Krayenhoff, E. Scott; Tapper, Nigel J.; Wouters, Hendrik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-785-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-785-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-785-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Model description paper

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20 Feb 2019

Model description paper |

| 20 Feb 2019

The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling

Ashley M. Broadbent, Andrew M. Coutts, Kerry A. Nice, Matthias Demuzere, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Nigel J. Tapper, and Hendrik Wouters

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'response to reviewer#1', Ashley Broadbent, 19 Dec 2018
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'response to reviewer#2', Ashley Broadbent, 19 Dec 2018
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Dec 2018
- AC3: 'response to reviewer 3', Ashley Broadbent, 30 Jan 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Ashley Broadbent on behalf of the Authors (30 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (31 Jan 2019) by Astrid Kerkweg

AR by Ashley Broadbent on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2019) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Feb 2019) by Astrid Kerkweg

AR by Ashley Broadbent on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2019)

Short summary

We present a simple model for assessing the cooling impacts of vegetation and water features (green and blue infrastructure) in urban environments. This model is designed to be computationally efficient so that those without technical knowledge or access to high-performance computers can use it. TARGET can be used to model average street-level air temperature at canyon to block scales (e.g. 100 m resolution). The model is carefully designed to provide reliable and accurate cooling estimates.