Effect of water body forms on microclimate of residential district

Abstract Water body as one of the constituent elements of underlying surface, is an important part of urban residential environment, and plays a certain regulating effect on microclimate environment of residential district in summer. This paper taking Harbin city of China as example, through the extensive investigation of residential district, the water body configuration forms of Harbin residential area can be divided into centralized and decentralized modes. According to the characteristics of each mode, the water body is subdivided into four or five forms. It selects the typical residential district to test, so as to analyses the effect of water body on summer microclimate of residential district, and applying the ENVI-met software to simulate the urban residential district microclimate with different water body configuration forms, then concludes the best water body configuration form for regulating the residential district microclimate in summer.