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Atmosphere, 2023 A crushed-rock embankment (CRE) with a high porous crushed-rock layer (CRL) can effectively cool the underlying permafrost through natural ventilation within the layer. However, in addition to the ambient conditions, the ventilation efficiency of the CRL
Hongting Zhao, Xiaolin Li, Xiaopeng Wu
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Sustainability, 2023 The urban climate is receiving increased attention mainly due to climate change. There are several ways to mitigate the urban climate, but green spaces have an advantage over other cooling systems because, in addition to their climate function, they ...
Igor Gallay +3 more
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Land, 2022 Mitigation of the heat island effect is critical due to the frequency of extremely hot weather. Urban street greening can achieve this mitigation and improve the quality of urban spaces and people’s welfare.
Ziyi Liu +6 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Urban parks include water bodies, non-hardened ground, and a variety of vegetation, whose shading and evaporation effects form a “park cold island.” A park effectively cools the surrounding environment through heat exchange.
Yu Gao, Huifeng Pan, L. Tian
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Atmosphere, 2023 It is of great significance to determine the level of demand for thermal environment regulation and the availability of blue–green spaces for thermal environment regulation to alleviate the effects of urban heat islands.
Jiayun Wang +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 The urban heat island effect poses a growing threat to human society, especially in densely populated and developed megacities. With the introduction of the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) framework, new perspectives and findings have been brought to urban ...
Yifan Luo +5 more
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Agriculture, 2021 In recent years, horticultural plants have frequently suffered significant heat damage due to excessive temperatures. In this study, a horticultural spray cooling system was designed, consisting mainly of a jet fan and spraying system.
Yongguang Hu +4 more
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Parametric Studies of Laminated Cooling Configurations: Overall Cooling Effectiveness [PDF]
International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2021 Combing the advantages of film cooling, impingement cooling, and enhanced cooling by pin fins, laminated cooling is attracting more and more attention. This study investigates the effects of geometric and thermodynamic parameters on overall cooling effectiveness of laminated configuration, and model experiments were carried out to validate the ...
Chen Wang, Chunhua Wang, Jingzhou Zhang
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Atmospheric teleconnection mechanisms of extratropical North Atlantic SST influence on Sahel rainfall [PDF]
, 2014 Extratropical North Atlantic cooling has been tied to droughts over the Sahel in both paleoclimate observations and modeling studies. This study, which uses an atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) coupled to a slab ocean model that simulates this ...
Chiang, JCH +3 more
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The Cooling Effect of Urban Green Spaces in Metacities: A Case Study of Beijing, China's Capital
Remote Sensing, 2021 Urban green spaces have many vital ecosystem services such as air cleaning, noise reduction, and carbon sequestration. Amid these great benefits from urban green spaces, the cooling effects via shading and evapotranspiration can mitigate the urban heat ...
Liang Yan, Wenxiao Jia, Shuqing Zhao
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