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Research paper / Draft

Canopy &
the street

Street-tree canopy and pedestrian air temperature in Merewick

Nia Aldersey & Owen Rill

MSc dissertation project · October 2026

Paper PDF forthcoming. The HTML summary is available now.

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Companion files

The paper, in HTML

Question.
Method.
Interpretation.

A short, readable companion to the dissertation.

Research question

How does pedestrian air temperature differ between nearby shaded and open-sky street locations in Merewick during clear summer weather?

Study design

Six paired routes were visited over three clear afternoons, with readings at 10:00, 13:00 and 16:00. Sensors were shielded and positioned 1.5 metres above the pavement.

Principal observation

The illustrative midday mean was 24.6°C in shade and 27.0°C in open sky: a difference of 2.4°C. Morning and afternoon differences were smaller.

Interpretation

The observations describe an association within a small, selected sample. They do not separate canopy from street geometry, wind or paving, and cannot establish a causal cooling effect.

Dataset notes

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The downloadable CSV contains three constructed aggregate rows, one per time window. It reproduces Figure 02 exactly. It is not raw route-level data and cannot support inference.

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time
Local observation window (HH:MM)
shade_c
Shaded-location mean, °C
open_sky_c
Open-sky mean, °C
reference_c
Context station mean, °C
difference_c
Open sky minus shade, °C
data_status
fictional_illustrative

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Research poster with canopy study title, temperature chart, method and limitations

Attribution

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BibTeX

@misc{fenwick2026canopy,
  author = {Aldersey, Nia and Rill, Owen},
  title = {Canopy and the street},
  year = {2026},
  institution = {Merewick Institute of Environment},
  note = {Fictional MSc research project},
  url = {https://example.com/canopy-project}
}

APA / 7th edition

Aldersey, N., & Rill, O. (2026). Canopy and the street [Fictional MSc research project, Merewick Institute of Environment]. https://example.com/canopy-project

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