Kevin Ka-Lun Lau

Best Publications

• Urban tree design approaches for mitigating daytime urban heat island effects in a high-density urban environment

  Zheng Tan;Kevin Ka Lun Lau;Edward Ng

  517
  Citations

• A study on the impact of shadow-cast and tree species on in-canyon and neighborhood's thermal comfort

  Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Ling Kong;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Chao Yuan

  463
  Citations

• Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong

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

  310
  Citations

• 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

  248
  Citations

• 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

  245
  Citations

• Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research

  Yong Xu;Chao Ren;Peifeng Ma;Justin Ho

  245
  Citations

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

  Yingsheng Zheng;Chao Ren;Yong Xu;Ran Wang

  244
  Citations

• 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

  216
  Citations

• 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

  207
  Citations

• Thermal benefits of vertical greening in a high-density city: Case study of Hong Kong

  Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo;Alan Lai;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Edward Ng

  173
  Citations

• 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

  171
  Citations

• Developing Street-Level PM2.5 and PM10 Land Use Regression Models in High-Density Hong Kong with Urban Morphological Factors.

  Yuan Shi;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Edward Ng

  164
  Citations

• Planning strategies for roadside tree planting and outdoor comfort enhancement in subtropical high-density urban areas

  Zheng Tan;Zheng Tan;Kevin Ka Lun Lau;Edward Ng

  162
  Citations

• Effectiveness of passive design strategies in responding to future climate change for residential buildings in hot and humid Hong Kong

  Sheng Liu;Yu Ting Kwok;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Wanlu Ouyang

  159
  Citations

• 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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  145
  Citations

• 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

  134
  Citations

• Neighbouring green space and mortality in community-dwelling elderly Hong Kong Chinese: a cohort study

  Dan Wang;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Ruby Yu;Samuel Y S Wong

  111
  Citations

• The influence of perceived aesthetic and acoustic quality on outdoor thermal comfort in urban environment

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  110
  Citations

• Numerical modelling of mean radiant temperature in high-density sub-tropical urban environment

  Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Chao Ren;Justin Ho;Edward Ng

  103
  Citations

• 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)

  Dan Wang;Kevin Ka-Lun Lau;Chao Ren;Chao Ren;William Bernard Iii Goggins

  102
  Citations