%0 Journal Article %T Isla de Calor Urbana: Modelaci車n Din芍mica y Evaluaci車n de medidas de Mitigaci車n en Ciudades de Clima 芍rido Extremo %A Villanueva-Solis %A Jorge %A Ranfla %A Arturo %A Quintanilla-Montoya %A Ana L %J Informaci車n tecnol車gica %D 2013 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-07642013000100003 %X the objective was to determine the potential mitigation of the urban heat island in a city sector of mexicali (baja california, m谷xico). the potential was determined through modeling the urban fabric; expressed in land use, land cover, and buildings as well as, the ability to implement mitigation strategies. the results show that under the current land use fabric and local climate change scenarios, the mitigation of temperature can be up to 8 ∼c., at 2080 year. based on the results, we conclude that dynamic modeling is a useful and an applicable tool, in the urban planning process of adaptation to climate change. %K urban heat island %K climate change %K dynamic modeling %K urban planning. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-07642013000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en