Reducing outdoor air temperature, improving thermal comfort, and saving buildings’ cooling energy demand in arid cities – Cool paving utilization

An integrated model for quantifying the impacts of pavement albedo and urban morphology on building energy demand

(2020) Xin Xu et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Vegetation in different street orientations of aspect ratio (H/W 1:1) to mitigate UHI and reduce buildings’ energy in arid climate

(2020) Amir Aboelata   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Right tree, right place (urban canyon): Tree species selection approach for optimum urban heat mitigation - development and evaluation

(2020) Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Integration of the WUDAPT, WRF, and ENVI-met models to simulate extreme daytime temperature mitigation strategies in San Jose, California

(2020) Ian McRae et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

High albedo materials to counteract heat waves in cities: An assessment of meteorology, buildings energy needs and pedestrian thermal comfort

(2019) Serena Falasca et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Cool Pavement Strategies for Urban Heat Island Mitigation in Suburban Phoenix, Arizona

(2019) Sushobhan Sen et al.   Sustainability

Analysis of the cooling effects of higher albedo surfaces during heat waves coupling the Weather Research and Forecasting model with building energy models

(2019) Zahra Jandaghian et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Evaluating the effect of trees on UHI mitigation and reduction of energy usage in different built up areas in Cairo

(2019) Amir Aboelata et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating urban vegetation scenarios to mitigate urban heat island and reduce buildings' energy in dense built-up areas in Cairo

(2019) Amir Aboelata et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Performance of Hong Kong's common trees species for outdoor temperature regulation, thermal comfort and energy saving

(2018) Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Energy demand and environmental impact of various construction scenarios of an office building in Morocco

(2018) S. Hamdaoui et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

How outdoor microclimate mitigation affects building thermal-energy performance: A new design-stage method for energy saving in residential near-zero energy settlements in Italy

(2018) Veronica Lucia Castaldo et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Cool roofs and cool pavements application in Acharnes, Greece

(2018) Dionysia – Denia Kolokotsa et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Trees and vegetation for residential energy conservation: A critical review for evidence-based urban greening in North America

(2018) Yekang Ko   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

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

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

Calibration of the physiological equivalent temperature index for three different climatic regions

(2017) E Krüger et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Responses of urban heat island in Atlanta to different land-use scenarios

(2017) Peng Fu et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Cool materials for reducing summer energy consumptions in Mediterranean climate: In-lab experiments and numerical analysis of a new coating based on acrylic paint

(2016) Alessandro Antonaia et al.   APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING

Effect of pavement thermal properties on mitigating urban heat islands: A multi-scale modeling case study in Phoenix

(2016) Jiachuan Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Strongly increasing heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the 21st century

(2016) J. Lelieveld et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Experimental evaluation of urban heat island mitigation potential of retro-reflective pavement in urban canyons

(2016) Federico Rossi et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Numerical optimisation through dynamic simulation of the position of trees around a stand-alone building to reduce cooling energy consumption

(2016) Filippo Calcerano et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Development and testing of photovoltaic pavement for heat island mitigation

(2016) Chrysanthi Efthymiou et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Urban pavements used in Brazil: Characterization of solar reflectance and temperature verification in the field

(2016) Joe Arnaldo Villena Del Carpio et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Evaluating the performance of ENVI-met model in diurnal cycles for different meteorological conditions

(2016) Juan A. Acero et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

The impact of different cooling strategies on urban air temperatures: the cases of Campinas, Brazil and Mendoza, Argentina

(2016) Noelia Liliana Alchapar et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

The use of reflective materials as a strategy for urban cooling in an arid “OASIS” city

(2016) Noelia L. Alchapar et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Urban microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort. A proper procedure to fit ENVI-met simulation outputs to experimental data

(2016) Ferdinando Salata et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

A comparison of thermal comfort conditions in four urban spaces by means of measurements and modelling techniques

(2015) Juan A. Acero et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Cooling asphalt pavement by a highly oriented heat conduction structure

(2015) Du Yinfei et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

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

(2015) Yinghong Qin   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Chicago’s Heat Island and Climate Change: Bridging the Scales via Dynamical Downscaling

(2015) Patrick Conry et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

A review on the development of cool pavements to mitigate urban heat island effect

(2015) Yinghong Qin   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Annual Observations of Climatic Impacts in the Songhua River Basin, China

(2015) Xiaocheng Song et al.   Advances in Meteorology

Comparison of different methods for the assessment of the urban heat island in Stuttgart, Germany

(2014) Christine Ketterer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Heat in courtyards: A validated and calibrated parametric study of heat mitigation strategies for urban courtyards in the Netherlands

(2014) Mohammad Taleghani et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Studying the effect of “cool” coatings in street urban canyons and its potential as a heat island mitigation technique

(2014) Ch. Georgakis et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Use of cool materials and other bioclimatic interventions in outdoor places in order to mitigate the urban heat island in a medium size city in Greece

(2014) A. Dimoudi et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Research on ecological design to enhance comfort in open spaces of a city (Valencia, Spain). Utility of the physiological equivalent temperature (PET)

(2013) F. Gómez et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Using cool pavements as a mitigation strategy to fight urban heat island—A review of the actual developments

(2013) M. Santamouris   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Development of benchmark models for the Egyptian residential buildings sector

(2012) Shady Attia et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Using cool paving materials to improve microclimate of urban areas – Design realization and results of the flisvos project

(2012) M. Santamouris et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Evaluation of a microclimate model for predicting the thermal behavior of different ground surfaces

(2012) Xiaoshan Yang et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Optical and thermal characterisation of cool asphalts to mitigate urban temperatures and building cooling demand

(2012) Emiliano Carnielo et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

An integrated simulation method for building energy performance assessment in urban environments

(2012) Xiaoshan Yang et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Study on energy saving effect of heat-reflective insulation coating on envelopes in the hot summer and cold winter zone

(2012) W. Guo et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

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

Experimental testing of cool colored thin layer asphalt and estimation of its potential to improve the urban microclimate

(2010) Afroditi Synnefa et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Development and testing of PCM doped cool colored coatings to mitigate urban heat island and cool buildings

(2010) T. Karlessi et al.   BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

Urban heat island effect and its impact on boundary layer development and land–sea circulation over northern Taiwan

(2008) Chuan-Yao Lin et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT