Retroreflective façades for urban heat island mitigation: Experimental investigation and energy evaluations

Applied Energy

Volumn 145, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-20

  Rossi, Federico ^a   Castellani, Beatrice ^b   Presciutti, Andrea ^a   Morini, Elena ^a   Filipponi, Mirko ^a   Nicolini, Andrea ^a   Santamouris, Matheos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b Engineering for Environment and Sustainable Development   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cool fa ade; Cool materials; Retroreflective materials; Urban canyon; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COATINGS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PAVEMENTS; REFLECTION; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; THERMAL POLLUTION;

COOL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INCLINATION ANGLES; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; URBAN CANYONS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS;

CHARACTERIZATION;

BUILDING; ENERGY BUDGET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT ISLAND; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTANCE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84923326685     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.129     Document Type: Article

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