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A Study on the Indoor Heating Effect of Blue Green Roofs during Cold Waves

Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
With the increasing frequency of heat-based climate disasters due to recent climate change, various technologies are being developed to mitigate their impacts. Blue-green roofs (BGR) is a technology that consists of rainwater storage tanks and grass layers installed on building rooftops to reduce the infiltration of cold or heat into the building ...
Jung Min Lee, Sung Min Cha, Jae Moon Kim, Soonchul Kwon   +3 more
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeometric analysis of Nasrid glazed architectural ceramics from the Alhambra and Generalife Monument, Granada (Spain)

Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio
This work presents the first systematic archaeometric data of 13th–14th century AD Nasrid glazed architectural ceramics from the Alhambra and Generalife, focusing on colour-specific glazing technologies.
Carolina Cardell, Maja Urosevic, Danielle Dias Martins, Isabel Guerra, Alberto García Porras   +4 more
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Evaluating Green and Blue Roof Opportunities in Canadian Cities

, 2017
Flat roof surfaces represent a significant proportion of urban areas and perform a variety of functions for buildings, with a corresponding variety of impacts on the urban environment and its infrastructure.
Hammond, Richard W.
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Green Roof Design: State of the Art on Technology and Materials

, 2019
In order to consider green roofs as an environmentally friendly technology, the selection of efficient and sustainable components is extremely important. Previous review papers have mainly focused on the performance and advantages of green roofs.
Stefano Cascone
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Multifaceted obscurity of Thismia abei (Thismiaceae): A fairy lantern with the protologue long disregarded in practice

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu, Alexander N. Sennikov, Maxim S. Nuraliev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leaf heat tolerance in a native Californian shrub responds in expected and unexpected ways to differences in range, season, and sunlight exposure

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Earth's ecosystems are experiencing wide‐ranging impacts from global climate change, including increased average and extreme temperatures. These temperature shifts can drastically affect plant physiology, threatening the future of even common plant species. Here, we focus on photosynthetic function in a native Southern California shrub species.
Anna K. M. Bowen, Helen Holmlund, Anna L. Jacobsen, R. Brandon Pratt, Christine Scoffoni, Ishan Ashford, Olivia Plumb, Casey Wisely, Gretchen North   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the Hydrologic Performance of Green and Blue-grey Detention Based Roof Systems

, 2018
In this thesis, a 2D version of Hydrus-2D/3D was used to model runoff from a green and blue-grey test roof at Høvringen. The van Genuchten-Mualem model was used to analytically describe the hydraulic properties of the substrates.
Wilmann, Jon Christian
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Microphysics and interactions of aerosols and fog on the northwest Atlantic Ocean

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
In the Grand Banks, aerosol size distributions were bimodal, aerosol and fog droplet concentrations were low, and fogs were shorter (<12 hours). In contrast, near Sable Island, aerosol size distributions had a single broad mode that was likely influenced by continental emissions, corresponding with higher aerosol and droplet concentrations as well as ...
Gianina Giacosa, Lauren Robinson, David G. Ortiz‐Suslow, Ryan Yamaguchi, Edward Creegan, Phillipe Gauvin‐Bourdon, Leyla Salehpoor, Leigh R. Crilley, Trevor C. VandenBoer, Qing Wang, Harindra J. S. Fernando, Rachel Y.‐W. Chang   +11 more
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A framework to evaluate and identify development requirements for land‐surface models at km‐scale resolution: Application to a semi‐arid and mountainous region

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This article provides a first evaluation of land‐surface models at the km‐scale resolutions at which they are used in weather and Earth‐system models. At these resolutions, the lateral transfers of water that organize landscapes play an important role in predicting evaporation correctly. Riparian processes and human water management for irrigation need
Jan Polcher, Julie Collignan, Juan Pablo Sierra Perez, Gabriele Arduini, Sophie Bastin, Martin Best, Aaron Boone, Manel Bravo, Francesca Covella, Jasper M. C. Denissen, Cenlin He, Simon Munier, Marc Prange, Elena Shevliakova   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source