Observing the impact of urban morphology and building geometry on thermal environment by high spatial resolution thermal images

202202 bcvcVersion of RecordRGCOthersThis work was supported by Grants by National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 41901283 , 61976234 , 42071394 ), Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation ( 2021A1515012567 , 2018B030312004 ), and Major Projects of High Resolution Earth Observation (Grant No. 30-H30C01-9004-19/21 ). The authors thank the Hong Kong Planning Department, Hong Kong Lands Department, the Hong Kong Civil Engineering and Development Department, the Hong Kong Observatory and the Hong Kong Government Flying Service for the planning, building GIS, weather and climate, and airborne Lidar data. Massimo Menenti acknowledges the support of grant P10-TIC-6114 by the Junta de Andalucía and the MOST High Level Foreign Expert program (Grant nr. GL20200161002 ). Man Sing Wong thanks the funding support from a grant by the General Research Fund (Grant no. 15602619 ) from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council . Dr. Qunshan Zhao has received UK ESRC's on-going support for the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) [ ES/L011921/1 and ES/S007105/1 ]. We would also want to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript.Publishe