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56
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3696
National Ranking
395

Overview

Chao Ren is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China, specializing in Environmental Science with a significant focus on related subfields including Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Building and Construction, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research encompasses several main topics, highlighted by Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, and Noise Effects and Management.

Chao Ren has contributed to multiple papers published primarily in well-known venues such as Urban Climate, Building and Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, and The Science of The Total Environment.

  • Right tree, right place (urban canyon): Tree species selection approach for optimum urban heat mitigation - development and evaluation (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
  • The cooling efficiency of variable greenery coverage ratios in different urban densities: A study in a subtropical climate (2020, Building and Environment)
  • Spatiotemporal assessment of extreme heat risk for high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2016 (2020, Sustainable Cities and Society)
  • Evaluation of urban heat islands using local climate zones and the influence of sea-land breeze (2020, Sustainable Cities and Society)

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Edward Ng, Yuan Shi, Junyi Hua, and Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo.

Chao Ren has also contributed to book publications through the publishers Biometeorology and Springer Nature, with titles such as Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (2021) and Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Environment (2021).

Best Publications

  • Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: A study in Hong Kong

    Edward Ng;Chao Yuan;Liang Chen;Chao Ren

  • WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene

    J. Ching;G. Mills;Benjamin Bechtel;L. See

  • 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

    Liang Chen;Edward Ng;Xipo An;Chao Ren

  • Urban climatic map studies: a review

    Chao Ren;Edward Yan yung Ng;Lutz Katzschner

  • Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong

    Ling Kong;Kevin Ka Lun Lau;Chao Yuan;Yang Chen

  • Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation

    Benjamin Bechtel;Paul J. Alexander;Christoph Beck;Jürgen Böhner

  • Performance of Hong Kong's common trees species for outdoor temperature regulation, thermal comfort and energy saving

    Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Chao Ren;Edward Ng

  • Investigating the relationship between local climate zone and land surface temperature using an improved WUDAPT methodology – A case study of Yangtze River Delta, China

    Meng Cai;Chao Ren;Yong Xu;Kevin Ka Lun Lau

  • Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research

    Yong Xu;Chao Ren;Peifeng Ma;Justin Ho

  • GIS-based mapping of Local Climate Zone in the high-density city of Hong Kong

    Yingsheng Zheng;Chao Ren;Yong Xu;Ran Wang

  • Effect Modification of the Association between Short-term Meteorological Factors and Mortality by Urban Heat Islands in Hong Kong

    William B. Goggins;Emily Y. Y. Chan;Edward Ng;Chao Ren

  • Right tree, right place (urban canyon): Tree species selection approach for optimum urban heat mitigation - development and evaluation

    Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Wanlu Ouyang;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Chao Ren

  • The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change.

    Wenjia Cai;Chi Zhang;Hoi Ping Suen;Siqi Ai

  • Mapping the local climate zones of urban areas by GIS-based and WUDAPT methods: A case study of Hong Kong

    Ran Wang;Chao Ren;Yong Xu;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau

  • Outdoor thermal comfort in different urban settings of sub-tropical high-density cities: An approach of adopting local climate zone (LCZ) classification

    Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Sum Ching Chung;Chao Ren;Chao Ren

  • A review of progress and applications of pulsed doppler wind LiDARs

    Zhengliang Liu;Janet F. Barlow;Pak Wai Chan;Jimmy Chi Hung Fung

  • The cooling efficiency of variable greenery coverage ratios in different urban densities: A study in a subtropical climate

    Wanlu Ouyang;Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Chao Ren;Chao Ren;Edward Ng

  • Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone

    Ran Wang;Meng Cai;Chao Ren;Chao Ren;Benjamin Bechtel

  • Urban heat island effect-related mortality under extreme heat and non-extreme heat scenarios: A 2010-2019 case study in Hong Kong.

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  • Creating breathing cities by adopting urban ventilation assessment and wind corridor plan – The implementation in Chinese cities

    Chao Ren;Chao Ren;Ruozi Yang;Chen Cheng;Pei Xing

  • Investigating the influence of urban land use and landscape pattern on PM2.5 spatial variation using mobile monitoring and WUDAPT

    Yuan Shi;Chao Ren;Chao Ren;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Edward Ng

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Ng
Edward Ng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kevin Ka-Lun Lau
Kevin Ka-Lun Lau Luleå University of Technology
Jimmy Chi Hung Fung
Jimmy Chi Hung Fung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Benjamin Bechtel
Benjamin Bechtel Ruhr University Bochum
Valéry Masson
Valéry Masson Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Yuguo Li
Yuguo Li University of Hong Kong
Alexander Baklanov
Alexander Baklanov University of Copenhagen
Alberto Martilli
Alberto Martilli Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Matthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere Ruhr University Bochum

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