Urban design parameters for heat mitigation in tropics

The Cooling Effect of Large-Scale Urban Parks on Surrounding Area Thermal Comfort

(2019) Farshid Aram et al.   Energies

Evaluating urban heat island in the critical local climate zones of an Indian city

(2018) Rajashree Kotharkar et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Green roofs and facades: A comprehensive review

(2018) Ahmet B. Besir et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Influence of aspect ratio and orientation on large courtyard thermal conditions in the historical centre of Camagüey-Cuba

(2018) José Rodríguez-Algeciras et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Effects of urban form on the urban heat island effect based on spatial regression model

(2018) Chaohui Yin et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating the cooling effects of green infrastructure: A systematic review of methods, indicators and data sources

(2018) Carlos Bartesaghi Koc et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Evaluation of green infrastructure effects on tropical Sri Lankan urban context as an urban heat island adaptation strategy

(2018) H.M.P.I.K. Herath et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Effects of green roofs’ variations on the regional thermal environment using measurements and simulations in Chongqing, China

(2018) Chaoqiang Jin et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

A critical review of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in the context of Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

(2018) Logaraj Ramakreshnan et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Pedestrian-level wind speed enhancement in urban street canyons with void decks

(2018) Lup Wai Chew et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Green and cool roofs’ urban heat island mitigation potential in tropical climate

(2018) Junjing Yang et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Analyzing the ENVI-met microclimate model’s performance and assessing cool materials and urban vegetation applications–A review

(2018) S. Tsoka et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Temperature and cooling demand reduction by green-roof types in different climates and urban densities: A co-simulation parametric study

(2017) Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Urban space’s morphology and microclimatic analysis: A study for a typical urban district in the Mediterranean city of Thessaloniki, Greece

(2017) Stella Tsoka et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Effect of urban design on microclimate and thermal comfort outdoors in warm-humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

(2017) Moohammed Wasim Yahia et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Urban climate in the Tokyo metropolitan area in Japan

(2017) Jun Matsumoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Optimizing the spatial arrangement of trees in residential neighborhoods for better cooling effects: Integrating modeling with in-situ measurements

(2017) Zhifeng Wu et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Passive and active cooling for the outdoor built environment – Analysis and assessment of the cooling potential of mitigation technologies using performance data from 220 large scale projects

(2017) M. Santamouris et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Is urban albedo or urban green covering more effective for urban microclimate improvement?: A simulation for Osaka

(2017) Jihui Yuan et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Assessment of urbanization and urban heat islands in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam using Landsat data

(2017) Nguyen-Thanh Son et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

EFFECTS OF SUBSTRATES AND PLANT SPECIES ON WATER QUALITY OF EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOFS

(2016) C-F. CHEN   APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Spatial-temporal study on the effects of urban street configurations on human thermal comfort in the world heritage city of Camagüey-Cuba

(2016) José Abel Rodríguez Algeciras et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Living walls and their contribution to improved thermal comfort and carbon emission reduction: A review

(2016) Sasima Charoenkit et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Investigating the potential of applying vertical green walls to high-rise residential buildings for energy-saving in sub-tropical region

(2016) Irene Wong et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Research on the cooling island effects of water body: A case study of Shanghai, China

(2016) Hongyu Du et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Urban tree design approaches for mitigating daytime urban heat island effects in a high-density urban environment

(2016) Zheng Tan et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Urban heat island and thermal comfort conditions at micro-climate scale in a tropical planned city

(2016) Adeb Qaid et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

The outdoor microclimate benefits and energy saving resulting from green roofs retrofits

(2016) Umberto Berardi   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood

(2016) Mohammad Taleghani et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Multi-year energy balance and carbon dioxide fluxes over a residential neighbourhood in a tropical city

(2016) Matthias Roth et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Review on the impact of urban geometry and pedestrian level greening on outdoor thermal comfort

(2016) Elmira Jamei et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Influences of land cover types, meteorological conditions, anthropogenic heat and urban area on surface urban heat island in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

(2016) Hongyu Du et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Sensitivity analysis of urban morphology factors regarding solar energy potential of buildings in a Brazilian tropical context

(2016) Tathiane Agra de Lemos Martins et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Assessment of measured and perceived microclimates within a tropical urban forest

(2016) Winston T.L. Chow et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Using green infrastructure for urban climate-proofing: An evaluation of heat mitigation measures at the micro-scale

(2016) Teresa Zölch et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Thermal performance of climber greenwalls: Effects of solar irradiance and orientation

(2015) C.Y. Jim   APPLIED ENERGY

Impact of plant evapotranspiration rate and shrub albedo on temperature reduction in the tropical outdoor environment

(2015) Chun Liang Tan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of microclimatic diversity and outdoor thermal comfort perceptions in the tropical megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh

(2015) Tania Sharmin et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Thermal performance characteristics of unshaded courtyards in hot and humid climates

(2015) Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Micro-scale thermal performance of tropical urban parks in Singapore

(2015) Yun Hye Hwang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The impact of building density and building height heterogeneity on average urban albedo and street surface temperature

(2015) Xinyan Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of Cool Roof Coatings for Residential Demand Side Management in Tropical Australia

(2015) Wendy Miller et al.   Energies

Urban canyon albedo and its implication on the use of reflective cool pavements

(2015) Yinghong Qin   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

On the impact of urban heat island and global warming on the power demand and electricity consumption of buildings—A review

(2015) M. Santamouris et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES – THE STATE OF THE ART

(2015) Hashem Akbari et al.   Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

Assessing climate-adaptation effect of extensive tropical green roofs in cities

(2015) C.Y. Jim   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Effect of tree planting design and tree species on human thermal comfort in the tropics

(2015) Loyde Vieira de Abreu-Harbich et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Calculating cooling extents of green parks using remote sensing: Method and test

(2015) Wenqi Lin et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Planning for cooler cities: A framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes

(2015) Briony A. Norton et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Performance of green roofs with respect to water quality and reduction of energy consumption in tropics: A review

(2015) Sajedeh Sadat Ghazizadeh Hashemi et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Effect of built-up ratio on the variation of air temperature in a heritage city

(2015) Elmira Jamei et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Urban microclimate analysis with consideration of local ambient temperature, external heat gain, urban ventilation, and outdoor thermal comfort in the tropics

(2015) Marcel Ignatius et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Effect of ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure on indoor environment: A literature review

(2014) Yafei Wang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Thermal pleasure in built environments: physiology of alliesthesia

(2014) Thomas Parkinson et al.   BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION

Effect of asymmetrical street aspect ratios on microclimates in hot, humid regions

(2014) Adeb Qaid et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Efficiency of parks in mitigating urban heat island effect: An example from Addis Ababa

(2014) Gudina Legese Feyisa et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Challenges associated with projecting urbanization-induced heat-related mortality

(2014) David M. Hondula et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The role of one large greenspace in mitigating London's nocturnal urban heat island

(2014) Kieron J. Doick et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Urban heat island and wind flow characteristics of a tropical city

(2014) Priyadarsini Rajagopalan et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

A satellite image-based analysis of factors contributing to the green-space cool island intensity on a city scale

(2014) Fanhua Kong et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect in Megacity Tehran

(2014) Sahar Sodoudi et al.   Advances in Meteorology

Size matters: vegetation patch size and surface temperature relationship in foothills cities of northwestern Argentina

(2014) Antonela Gioia et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Evaluating the cooling effects of greening for improving the outdoor thermal environment at an institutional campus in the summer

(2013) Manat Srivanit et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Performance evaluation and development strategies for green roofs in Taiwan: A review

(2013) Chi-Feng Chen   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Green-Roof Effects on Neighborhood Microclimate and Human Thermal Sensation

(2013) Lilliana Peng et al.   Energies

Can the 2011 East African drought be attributed to human-induced climate change?

(2013) Fraser C. Lott et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Refreshing the role of open water surfaces on mitigating the maximum urban heat island effect

(2013) G.J. Steeneveld et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The city and urban heat islands: A review of strategies to mitigate adverse effects

(2013) E.J. Gago et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Thermal bioclimate in idealized urban street canyons in Campinas, Brazil

(2013) Loyde V. Abreu-Harbich et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Effect of street trees on microclimate and air pollution in a tropical city

(2013) Lionel Sujay Vailshery et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections

(2013) J. Sillmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

An evaluation of outdoor and building environment cooling achieved through combination modification of trees with ground materials

(2012) Mohd Fairuz Shahidan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The interaction of rivers and urban form in mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect: A UK case study

(2012) E.A. Hathway et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Climate change and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

(2012) J. Lelieveld et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Passive cooling dissipation techniques for buildings and other structures: The state of the art

(2012) Mattheos Santamouris et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

The impact of impervious surface development on land surface temperature in a subtropical city: Xiamen, China

(2012) Hanqiu Xu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments

(2012) M. Santamouris   SOLAR ENERGY

Diurnal and weekly variation of anthropogenic heat emissions in a tropical city, Singapore

(2011) Anne K.L. Quah et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Assessment of the canopy urban heat island of a coastal arid tropical city: The case of Muscat, Oman

(2011) Yassine Charabi et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

A study on the cooling effects of greening in a high-density city: An experience from Hong Kong

(2011) Edward Ng et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Building porosity for better urban ventilation in high-density cities – A computational parametric study

(2011) Chao Yuan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Urban human thermal comfort in hot and humid Hong Kong

(2011) Edward Ng et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

How to make a city climate-proof, addressing the urban heat island effect

(2011) Laura Kleerekoper et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Bioreceptivity of buildings for spontaneous arboreal flora in compact city environment

(2011) C.Y. Jim et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Approaches to study Urban Heat Island – Abilities and limitations

(2010) Parham A. Mirzaei et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

The once and future pulse of Indian monsoonal climate

(2010) K. Krishna Kumar et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

A systematic review and scientific critique of methodology in modern urban heat island literature

(2010) I. D. Stewart   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence

(2010) Diana E. Bowler et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban morphology and air quality in dense residential environments in Hong Kong. Part I: District-level analysis

(2009) P. Edussuriya et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

On natural ventilation and thermal comfort in compact urban environments – the Old Havana case

(2009) A. Tablada et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Study on mitigation measures for outdoor thermal environment on present urban blocks in Tokyo using coupled simulation

(2009) Hong Chen et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Thermal evaluation of vertical greenery systems for building walls

(2009) Nyuk Hien Wong et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Thermal bioclimate in Strasbourg - the 2003 heat wave

(2009) Andreas Matzarakis et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Microclimatic modeling of the urban thermal environment of Singapore to mitigate urban heat island

(2008) Rajagopalan Priyadarsini et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Lowering the outdoor temperature in high-rise high-density residential developments of coastal Hong Kong: The vegetation influence

(2007) R. Giridharan et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Temperature and relative humidity distributions in a medium-size administrative town in southwest Nigeria

(2007) O.M. Akinbode et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT