Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model

Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model

The effects of urban heat islands (UHIs) have a substantial bearing on the sustainability of cities and environs. This paper examines the efficacy of green and cool roofs as potential UHI mitigation strategies to make cities more resilient against UHI. We have employed the urbanized version of the W...

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Main Authors: A Sharma, P Conry, H J S Fernando, Alan F Hamlet, J J Hellmann, F Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
urban heat island
mitigation
WRF
green and cool roofs
vertical mixing
boundary layer
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/6/064004

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