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Heat island phenomenon and cool roofs mitigation strategies in a small city of elevated temperatures
High urban temperatures are observed during the last 100 years due to the heat island phenomenon. The effect is intensively pronounced even in small-sized cities by temperature differences between rural and urban environment up to 6oC. In order to keep the phenomenon under control, mitigation strategies, especially concerning cool roofs have been established. Under hot and arid climates, roof temperatures reach almost 70oC and about 50% of heat enters into buildings through roof slab. The aim of this paper is to present the heat island phenomenon in a small city of Western Greece and to propose energy-saving techniques that improve the overall energy performance of building stock and are easy to be applied.
Heat island phenomenon and cool roofs mitigation strategies in a small city of elevated temperatures
High urban temperatures are observed during the last 100 years due to the heat island phenomenon. The effect is intensively pronounced even in small-sized cities by temperature differences between rural and urban environment up to 6oC. In order to keep the phenomenon under control, mitigation strategies, especially concerning cool roofs have been established. Under hot and arid climates, roof temperatures reach almost 70oC and about 50% of heat enters into buildings through roof slab. The aim of this paper is to present the heat island phenomenon in a small city of Western Greece and to propose energy-saving techniques that improve the overall energy performance of building stock and are easy to be applied.
Heat island phenomenon and cool roofs mitigation strategies in a small city of elevated temperatures
Vardoulakis, Eftychios (author) / Karamanis, Dimitrios (author) / Mihalakakou, Giouli (author)
Advances in Building Energy Research ; 8 ; 55-62
2014-01-02
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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