Planning Strategies of Wind Corridor Forests Utilizing the Properties of Cold Air

Uk-Je Sung, Jeong-Hee Eum, Jeong-Min Son and Jeong-Hak Oh
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Uk-Je Sung: Department of Landscape Architecture, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea
Jeong-Hee Eum: Department of Landscape Architecture, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea
Jeong-Min Son: Department of Landscape Architecture, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea
Jeong-Hak Oh: Division of Urban Forests, National Institute of Forest Science, 57 Hoegi-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02455, Korea

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: A wind corridor forest is defined as an urban forest for utilizing the functions of a wind corridor that allow “cool and fresh air (cold air)” generated in forests at night to flow to urban development areas. This study aims to provide planning strategies for implementing a wind corridor forest by analyzing current conditions in Haengbok City (HBC region), Sejong, South Korea. The HBC region had many wind-generating forests (WGF), wind-spreading forests (WSF), and wind-connecting forests (WCF), and secured the connections among the target areas of each wind corridor forest. Despite the favorable conditions for a wind corridor forest, cold air flow showed that there are regions with unfavorable wind conditions in the HBC region. In order to strengthen the functions of a wind corridor forests in the HBC region, four zones were distinguished according to the functional characteristics. Additionally, the planning strategies of a wind corridor forests suitable for each zone were provided, and the strategies for establishing a wind corridor forest were proposed. The results of this study can be used as the fundamental data for establishing guidelines for a wind corridor forest and utilized as resources for selecting regions suitable for a wind corridor forest.

Keywords: urban forest; ventilation corridor; forest planning; KALM; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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