Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: Evaluation with a regional climate model

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Sharma, A ^a,c   Conry, P ^a   Fernando, H J S ^a   Hamlet, Alan F ^a   Hellmann, J J ^a   Chen, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

boundary layer; green and cool roofs; lake breeze; mitigation; urban heat island; vertical mixing; WRF

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MIXING; ROOFS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

AIR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; COOL ROOFS; MITIGATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS; VERTICAL MIXING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT ISLAND; METROPOLITAN AREA; REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROOF; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ENERGY; URBAN PLANNING; VERTICAL MIXING;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977479115     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/6/064004     Document Type: Article

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