Chao Ren, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2010 Architecture The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Area:
Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning

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2022 Yin S, Ren C, Shi Y, Hua J, Yuan HY, Tian LW. A Systematic Review on Modeling Methods and Influential Factors for Mapping Dengue-Related Risk in Urban Settings. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19. PMID 36429980 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192215265  0.358
2022 Ho JY, Shi Y, Lau KKL, Ng EYY, Ren C, Goggins WB. Urban heat island effect-related mortality under extreme heat and non-extreme heat scenarios: A 2010-2019 case study in Hong Kong. The Science of the Total Environment. 159791. PMID 36328261 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159791  0.587
2022 Cai M, Ren C, Shi Y, Chen G, Xie J, Ng E. Modeling spatiotemporal carbon emissions for two mega-urban regions in China using urban form and panel data analysis. The Science of the Total Environment. 857: 159612. PMID 36273567 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159612  0.623
2022 Liu T, Ren C, Zhang S, Yin A, Yue W. Coupling Coordination Analysis of Urban Development and Ecological Environment in Urban Area of Guilin Based on Multi-Source Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19. PMID 36231884 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912583  0.464
2022 Chen G, Shi Y, Wang R, Ren C, Ng E, Fang X, Ren Z. Integrating weather observations and local-climate-zone-based landscape patterns for regional hourly air temperature mapping using machine learning. The Science of the Total Environment. 841: 156737. PMID 35716755 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156737  0.654
2021 Wang P, Goggins WB, Shi Y, Zhang X, Ren C, Ka-Lun Lau K. Long-term Association between Urban Air Ventilation and Mortality in Hong Kong. Environmental Research. 111000. PMID 33745928 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111000  0.382
2020 Ouyang W, Morakinyo TE, Ren C, Liu S, Ng E. Thermal-irradiant performance of green infrastructure typologies: Field measurement study in a subtropical climate city. The Science of the Total Environment. 764: 144635. PMID 33387766 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144635  0.623
2020 Wang P, Goggins WB, Zhang X, Ren C, Lau KK. Association of urban built environment and socioeconomic factors with suicide mortality in high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong. The Science of the Total Environment. 739: 139877. PMID 32534310 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2020.139877  0.43
2020 Grimmond S, Bouchet V, Molina LT, Baklanov A, Tan J, Schluenzen KH, Mills G, Golding B, Masson V, Ren C, Voogt J, Miao S, Lean H, Heusinkveld B, Hovespyan A, et al. Integrated urban hydrometeorological, climate and environmental services: Concept, methodology and key messages. Urban Climate. 100623. PMID 32292692 DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2020.100623  0.378
2020 Baklanov A, Cárdenas B, Lee TC, Leroyer S, Masson V, Molina LT, Müller T, Ren C, Vogel FR, Voogt JA. Integrated urban services: Experience from four cities on different continents. Urban Climate. 32: 100610. PMID 32289009 DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2020.100610  0.473
2020 Morakinyo TE, Ouyang W, Lau KK, Ren C, Ng E. Right tree, right place (urban canyon): Tree species selection approach for optimum urban heat mitigation - development and evaluation. The Science of the Total Environment. 719: 137461. PMID 32114235 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2020.137461  0.681
2020 Yeung PS, Fung JC, Ren C, Xu Y, Huang K, Leng J, Wong MM. Investigating Future Urbanization’s Impact on Local Climate under Different Climate Change Scenarios in MEGA-urban Regions: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta, China Atmosphere. 11: 771. DOI: 10.3390/Atmos11070771  0.498
2020 Zhou X, Okaze T, Ren C, Cai M, Ishida Y, Mochida A. Mapping local climate zones for a Japanese large city by an extended workflow of WUDAPT Level 0 method Urban Climate. 33: 100660. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2020.100660  0.427
2020 Liu J, Hansen A, Varghese B, Liu Z, Tong M, Qiu H, Tian L, Lau KK, Ng E, Ren C, Bi P. Cause-specific mortality attributable to cold and hot ambient temperatures in Hong Kong: a time-series study, 2006–2016 Sustainable Cities and Society. 57: 102131. DOI: 10.1016/J.Scs.2020.102131  0.573
2020 Zhou X, Okaze T, Ren C, Cai M, Ishida Y, Watanabe H, Mochida A. Evaluation of urban heat islands using local climate zones and the influence of sea-land breeze Sustainable Cities and Society. 55: 102060. DOI: 10.1016/J.Scs.2020.102060  0.558
2020 Ren C, Cai M, Li X, Shi Y, See L. Developing a rapid method for 3-dimensional urban morphology extraction using open-source data Sustainable Cities and Society. 53: 101962. DOI: 10.1016/J.Scs.2019.101962  0.514
2020 Cai M, Shi Y, Ren C. Developing a High-resolution Emission Inventory Tool for Low-Carbon City Management Using Hybrid Method – A Pilot Test in High-density Hong Kong Energy and Buildings. 226: 110376. DOI: 10.1016/J.Enbuild.2020.110376  0.409
2020 McRae I, Freedman FR, Rivera A, Li X, Dou J, Cruz I, Ren C, Dronova I, Fraker H, Bornstein R. Integration of the WUDAPT, WRF, and ENVI-met models to simulate extreme daytime temperature mitigation strategies in San Jose, California Building and Environment. 184: 107180. DOI: 10.1016/J.Buildenv.2020.107180  0.424
2020 Wang Q, Zhang C, Ren C, Hang J, Li Y. Urban heat island circulations over the Beijing-Tianjin region under calm and fair conditions Building and Environment. 180: 107063. DOI: 10.1016/J.Buildenv.2020.107063  0.468
2020 Ouyang W, Morakinyo TE, Ren C, Ng E. The cooling efficiency of variable greenery coverage ratios in different urban densities: A study in a subtropical climate Building and Environment. 174: 106772. DOI: 10.1016/J.Buildenv.2020.106772  0.696
2020 Kwok YT, Munck CD, Schoetter R, Ren C, Lau KK. Refined dataset to describe the complex urban environment of Hong Kong for urban climate modelling studies at the mesoscale Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 1-22. DOI: 10.1007/S00704-020-03298-X  0.588
2019 Ren C, Cai M, Li X, Zhang L, Wang R, Xu Y, Ng E. Assessment of Local Climate Zone Classification Maps of Cities in China and Feasible Refinements. Scientific Reports. 9: 18848. PMID 31827216 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-019-55444-9  0.694
2019 Wang D, Lau KK, Ren C, Goggins WBI, Shi Y, Ho HC, Lee TC, Lee LS, Woo J, Ng E. The impact of extremely hot weather events on all-cause mortality in a highly urbanized and densely populated subtropical city: A 10-year time-series study (2006-2015). The Science of the Total Environment. 690: 923-931. PMID 31302556 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2019.07.039  0.587
2019 Shi Y, Ren C, Cai M, Lau KK, Lee TC, Wong WK. Assessing spatial variability of extreme hot weather conditions in Hong Kong: A land use regression approach. Environmental Research. 171: 403-415. PMID 30716517 DOI: 10.1016/J.Envres.2019.01.041  0.483
2019 Liu Z, Barlow JF, Chan P, Fung JCH, Li Y, Ren C, Mak HWL, Ng E. A Review of Progress and Applications of Pulsed Doppler Wind LiDARs Remote Sensing. 11: 2522. DOI: 10.3390/Rs11212522  0.545
2019 Ching J, Aliaga D, Mills G, Masson V, See L, Neophytou M, Middel A, Baklanov A, Ren C, Ng E, Fung J, Wong M, Huang Y, Martilli A, Brousse O, et al. Corrigendum to ‘Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling’ (Urban Climate (2019) 28, (S2212095519300975), (10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100459)) Urban Climate. 30: 100527. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2019.100527  0.674
2019 Wong MMF, Fung JCH, Ching J, Yeung PPS, Tse JWP, Ren C, Wang R, Cai M. Evaluation of uWRF performance and modeling guidance based on WUDAPT and NUDAPT UCP datasets for Hong Kong Urban Climate. 28: 100460. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2019.100460  0.489
2019 Ching J, Aliaga D, Mills G, Masson V, See L, Neophytou M, Middel A, Baklanov A, Ren C, Ng E, Fung J, Wong M, Huang Y, Martilli A, Brousse O, et al. Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling Urban Climate. 28: 100459. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2019.100459  0.713
2019 Wang R, Cai M, Ren C, Bechtel B, Xu Y, Ng E. Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone Urban Climate. 28: 100455. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2019.100455  0.707
2019 Bechtel B, Alexander PJ, Beck C, Böhner J, Brousse O, Ching J, Demuzere M, Fonte C, Gál T, Hidalgo J, Hoffmann P, Middel A, Mills G, Ren C, See L, et al. Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation Urban Climate. 27: 24-45. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2018.10.001  0.43
2019 Morakinyo TE, Ren C, Shi Y, Lau KK, Tong H, Choy C, Ng E. Estimates of the impact of extreme heat events on cooling energy demand in Hong Kong Renewable Energy. 142: 73-84. DOI: 10.1016/J.Renene.2019.04.077  0.641
2019 Shi Y, Ren C, Lau KK, Ng E. Investigating the influence of urban land use and landscape pattern on PM2.5 spatial variation using mobile monitoring and WUDAPT Landscape and Urban Planning. 189: 15-26. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2019.04.004  0.657
2019 Lau KK, Chung SC, Ren C. Outdoor thermal comfort in different urban settings of sub-tropical high-density cities: An approach of adopting local climate zone (LCZ) classification Building and Environment. 154: 227-238. DOI: 10.1016/J.Buildenv.2019.03.005  0.463
2019 Kwok YT, Schoetter R, Lau KK, Hidalgo J, Ren C, Pigeon G, Masson V. How well does the local climate zone scheme discern the thermal environment of Toulouse (France)? An analysis using numerical simulation data International Journal of Climatology. 39: 5292-5315. DOI: 10.1002/Joc.6140  0.329
2018 Ng E, Ren C. China's adaptation to climate & urban climatic changes: A critical review. Urban Climate. 23: 352-372. PMID 32363139 DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2017.07.006  0.664
2018 Ching J, Mills G, Bechtel B, See L, Feddema J, Wang X, Ren C, Brousse O, Martilli A, Neophytou M, Mouzourides P, Stewart I, Hanna A, Ng E, Foley M, et al. WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99: 1907-1924. DOI: 10.1175/Bams-D-16-0236.1  0.687
2018 Tse JWP, Yeung PS, Fung JC, Ren C, Wang R, Wong MM, CAI M. Investigation of the meteorological effects of urbanization in recent decades: A case study of major cities in Pearl River Delta Urban Climate. 26: 174-187. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2018.08.007  0.554
2018 Shi Y, Lau KK, Ren C, Ng E. Evaluating the local climate zone classification in high-density heterogeneous urban environment using mobile measurement Urban Climate. 25: 167-186. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2018.07.001  0.735
2018 Wang R, Ren C, Xu Y, Lau KK, Shi Y. Mapping the local climate zones of urban areas by GIS-based and WUDAPT methods: A case study of Hong Kong Urban Climate. 24: 567-576. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2017.10.001  0.522
2018 Cai M, Ren C, Xu Y, Lau KK, Wang R. Investigating the relationship between local climate zone and land surface temperature using an improved WUDAPT methodology – A case study of Yangtze River Delta, China Urban Climate. 24: 485-502. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2017.05.010  0.546
2018 Zheng Y, Ren C, Xu Y, Wang R, Ho J, Lau K, Ng E. GIS-based mapping of Local Climate Zone in the high-density city of Hong Kong Urban Climate. 24: 419-448. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2017.05.008  0.685
2018 Ren C, Yang R, Cheng C, Xing P, Fang X, Zhang S, Wang H, Shi Y, Zhang X, Kwok YT, Ng E. Creating breathing cities by adopting urban ventilation assessment and wind corridor plan – The implementation in Chinese cities Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 182: 170-188. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jweia.2018.09.023  0.684
2018 Morakinyo TE, Lau KK, Ren C, Ng E. Performance of Hong Kong's common trees species for outdoor temperature regulation, thermal comfort and energy saving Building and Environment. 137: 157-170. DOI: 10.1016/J.Buildenv.2018.04.012  0.606
2017 Ho HC, Lau KK, Ren C, Ng E. Characterizing prolonged heat effects on mortality in a sub-tropical high-density city, Hong Kong. International Journal of Biometeorology. PMID 28735445 DOI: 10.1007/S00484-017-1383-4  0.603
2017 Xu L, Ren C, Yuan C, Nichol J, Goggins W. An Ecological Study of the Association between Area-Level Green Space and Adult Mortality in Hong Kong Climate. 5: 55. DOI: 10.3390/Cli5030055  0.383
2017 Xu Y, Ren C, Cai M, Edward NYY, Wu T. Classification of Local Climate Zones Using ASTER and Landsat Data for High-Density Cities Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 10: 3397-3405. DOI: 10.1109/Jstars.2017.2683484  0.526
2017 Lau KK, Ng E, Ren C, Ho JC, Wan L, Shi Y, Zheng Y, Gong F, Cheng V, Yuan C, Tan Z, Wong KS. Defining the environmental performance of neighbourhoods in high-density cities Building Research & Information. 46: 540-551. DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2018.1399583  0.677
2017 Kong L, Lau KK, Yuan C, Chen Y, Xu Y, Ren C, Ng E. Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong Sustainable Cities and Society. 31: 12-25. DOI: 10.1016/J.Scs.2017.01.018  0.667
2017 Xu Y, Ren C, Ma P, Ho J, Wang W, Lau KK, Lin H, Ng E. Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research Landscape and Urban Planning. 167: 212-224. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2017.06.018  0.727
2016 Zheng Y, Shi Y, Ren C, NG E. Urban Ventilation Strategies for Micro Climate Improvement in Subtropical High-density Cities: A Case Study of Tai Po Market in Hong Kong Urban Planning International. 31: 68-75. DOI: 10.22217/upi.2015.230  0.623
2016 Cai M, Ren C, Xu Y, Dai W, Wang XM. Local Climate Zone Study for Sustainable Megacities Development by Using Improved WUDAPT Methodology – A Case Study in Guangzhou Procedia Environmental Sciences. 36: 82-89. DOI: 10.1016/J.Proenv.2016.09.017  0.588
2015 Shi Y, Ren C, Zheng Y, Ng E. Mapping the urban microclimatic spatial distribution in a sub-tropical high-density urban environment Architectural Science Review. DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2015.1105195  0.679
2015 Lau KKL, Ren C, Ho J, Ng E. Numerical modelling of mean radiant temperature in high-density sub-tropical urban environment Energy and Buildings. DOI: 10.1016/J.Enbuild.2015.06.035  0.673
2014 Yuan C, Ren C, Ng E. GIS-based surface roughness evaluation in the urban planning system to improve the wind environment – A study in Wuhan, China Urban Climate. 10: 585-593. DOI: 10.1016/J.Uclim.2014.06.005  0.684
2013 Goggins WB, Ren C, Ng E, Yang C, Chan EY. Effect modification of the association between meteorological variables and mortality by urban climatic conditions in the tropical city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Geospatial Health. 8: 37-44. PMID 24258881 DOI: 10.4081/Gh.2013.52  0.677
2013 Ren C, Lau KL, Yiu KP, Ng E. The application of urban climatic mapping to the urban planning of high-density cities: The case of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Cities. 31: 1-16. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cities.2012.12.005  0.727
2012 Goggins WB, Chan EY, Ng E, Ren C, Chen L. Effect modification of the association between short-term meteorological factors and mortality by urban heat islands in Hong Kong. Plos One. 7: e38551. PMID 22761684 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0038551  0.65
2012 Ren C, Spit T, Lenzholzer S, Yim HLS, Heusinkveld B, Hove Bv, Chen L, Kupski S, Burghardt R, Katzschner L. Urban Climate Map System for Dutch spatial planning International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 18: 207-221. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jag.2012.01.026  0.532
2011 Ng E, Yuan C, Chen L, Ren C, Fung JCH. Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: A study in Hong Kong. Landscape and Urban Planning. 101: 59-74. PMID 32287617 DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2011.01.004  0.672
2010 Chen L, Ng E, An X, Ren C, Lee M, Wang U, He Z. Sky view factor analysis of street canyons and its implications for daytime intra-urban air temperature differentials in high-rise, high-density urban areas of Hong Kong: a GIS-based simulation approach International Journal of Climatology. 32: 121-136. DOI: 10.1002/Joc.2243  0.789
2010 Ren C, Ng EY, Katzschner L. Urban climatic map studies: a review International Journal of Climatology. 31: 2213-2233. DOI: 10.1002/Joc.2237  0.709
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