CityComfort+
CityComfort+ is a design and planning tool jointly developed at the University of Hong Kong and Harvard University. It applies a physics-based model to assess urban environmental parameters in light of climate change. The tool uses inputs of 3D urban geometries, surface properties, topography and weather data; the output features micro-scale environmental parameters including human perception of thermal comfort, day-lighting, wind speed, solar radiation, air temperature, air quality, and noise, etc.
CityComfort+ has been validated via field studies and results were published in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, the tool has been developed into a software for cluster/grid computing and it can also operate on personal computers via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Plugin for Rhino.