Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications

The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect to the countryside surrounding the city. This book includes 18 papers representing the state of the art...

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Main Author: Santamouris, Matheos (auth)
Other Authors: Zinzi, Michele (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
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520 |a The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect to the countryside surrounding the city. This book includes 18 papers representing the state of the art of detection, assessment mitigation and adaption to urban overheating. Advanced methods, strategies and technologies are here analyzed including relevant issues as: the role of urban materials and fabrics on urban climate and their potential mitigation, the impact of greenery and vegetation to reduce urban temperatures and improve the thermal comfort, the role the urban geometry in the air temperature rise, the use of satellite and ground data to assess and quantify the urban overheating and develop mitigation solutions, calculation methods and application to predict and assess mitigation scenarios. The outcomes of the book are thus relevant for a wide multidisciplinary audience, including: environmental scientists and engineers, architect and urban planners, policy makers and students. 
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653 |a land surface temperature 
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653 |a energy savings 
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653 |a surface cool island effect 
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653 |a sky view factor 
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653 |a urban energy balance 
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653 |a cool pavements 
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653 |a heat stress 
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653 |a multiple linear regression 
653 |a built-up area 
653 |a thermal emittance 
653 |a urban morphology 
653 |a cost-optimal analysis 
653 |a building retrofit 
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653 |a mitigation strategies 
653 |a luminance coefficient 
653 |a office buildings 
653 |a GIS 
653 |a structure functions analysis 
653 |a solar reflectance 
653 |a park cool island 
653 |a solar reflectance index 
653 |a urban open space 
653 |a building scale 
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653 |a summer heat stress 
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653 |a land cover fraction 
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653 |a energy simulation 
653 |a urban microclimate 
653 |a urban development 
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653 |a cool facades 
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653 |a lifecycle analysis 
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