Estimating the potential of U.S. urban infrastructure albedo enhancement as climate mitigation in the face of climate variability
The climate mitigation potential of U.S. urban infrastructure albedo enhancement is explored using multidecadal regional climate simulations. Increasing albedo from 0.2 to 0.4 results in summer daytime surface temperature decreases of 1.5°C, substantial reductions in health-related heat (50% decreas...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | en_US |
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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111819 |