Active cool roof effect: impact of cool roofs on cooling system efficiency
Advances in Building Energy Research, 2013 Cool roofs represent an acknowledged, relatively simple, and low-cost strategy to reduce cooling energy demand of buildings and mitigate urban heat island phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to study the coupled passive–active effect produced by such a technology, where the active effect consists of the cool roof capability to decrease the suction ...
PISELLO, ANNA LAURA +2 more
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Indoor thermal comfort in urban courtyard block dwellings in the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2014 Global warming and elevated temperatures in the Netherlands will increase the energy demand for cooling. Studying passive strategies to cope with the consequences of climate change is inevitable.
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Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments [PDF]
, 2016 In 2006, California introduced the Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32), which requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Gilbert, H, Levinson, R, Mandel, BH
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Optimization of cool roof and night ventilation in office buildings: A case study in Xiamen, China [PDF]
, 2020 Increasing roof albedo (using a “cool” roof) and night ventilation are passive cooling technologies that can reduce the cooling loads in buildings, but existing studies have not comprehensively explored the potential benefits of integrating these two ...
Gao, Y +6 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Many cities are developing mitigation plans in an effort to reduce the population health impacts from expected future increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.
Cheng He +4 more
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A wedge strategy for mitigation of urban warming in future climate scenarios [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 Heat stress is one of the most severe climate threats to human society in a future warmer world. The situation is further exacerbated in urban areas by urban heat islands (UHIs). Because the majority of world's population is projected to live in cities,
L. Zhao +5 more
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Revisiting the climate impacts of cool roofs around the globe using an Earth system model
Environmental Research Letters, 2016 Solar reflective ‘cool roofs’ absorb less sunlight than traditional dark roofs, reducing solar heat gain, and decreasing the amount of heat transferred to the atmosphere.
Jiachen Zhang +3 more
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Pollution severity-regulated effects of roof strategies on China’s winter PM2.5
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 Urbanization took place rapidly over recent decades and is expected to continue in the future, producing a series of environmental issues, including heat stress.
Fan Wang +4 more
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Cool Roof Impact on Building Energy Need: The Role of Thermal Insulation with Varying Climate Conditions [PDF]
, 2019 Cool roof effectiveness in improving building thermal-energy performance is affected by different variables. In particular, roof insulation level and climate conditions are key parameters influencing cool roofs benefits and whole building energy ...
Cabeza, Luisa F. +5 more
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Will cool roofs improve the thermal performance of our built environment? A study assessing roof systems in Bahrain [PDF]
, 2017 A number of international campaigns have recently proposed the use of cool roofs worldwide in order to cope with the summer urban heat island (UHI) effect.
Fahmy, M +3 more
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