Passive and active cooling for the outdoor built environment – Analysis and assessment of the cooling potential of mitigation technologies using performance data from 220 large scale projects

Solar Energy

Volumn 154, Issue , 2017, Pages 14-33

  Santamouris, M ^a,b   Ding, L ^a   Fiorito, F ^a   Oldfield, P ^a   Osmond, Paul ^a   Paolini, R ^a   Prasad, D ^a   Synnefa, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cool materials; Earth to air heat exchangers; Evaporative technologies; Mitigation technologies; Passive cooling; Urban greenery; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROPS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HOSE; ROOFS; TEMPERATURE;

COOL MATERIALS; EARTH-TO-AIR HEAT EXCHANGER; EVAPORATIVE TECHNOLOGY; PASSIVE COOLING; URBAN GREENERY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85008392818     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2016.12.006     Document Type: Article

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