Cool Roofs Could Be Most Effective at Reducing Outdoor Urban Temperatures in London (united Kingdom) Compared with Other Roof Top and Vegetation Interventions: a Mesoscale Urban Climate Modeling Study
Geophysical Research Letters(2024)
Abstract
Comprehensive studies comparing impacts of building and street levels interventions on air temperature at metropolitan scales are still lacking despite increased urban heat-related mortality and morbidity. We therefore model the impact of 9 interventions on air temperatures at 2 m during 2 hot days from the summer 2018 in the Greater London Authority area using the WRF BEP-BEM climate model. We find that on average cool roofs most effectively reduce temperatures ($\sim$~-1.2~$^\circ$C), outperforming green roofs ($\sim$~0~$^\circ$C), solar panels ($\sim$~-0.5~$^\circ$C) and street level vegetation ($\sim$~-0.3~$^\circ$C). Application of air conditioning across London (United Kingdom) increases air temperatures by $\sim$~+0.15~$^\circ$C. A practicable deployment of solar panels could cover its related energetic consumption. Current practicable deployments of green roofs and solar panels are ineffective at large scale reduction of temperatures. We provide a detailed decomposition of the surface energy balance to explain changes in air temperature and guide future decision-making.
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Key words
urban climate modeling,WRF BEP‐BEM,London,heat adaptation,heat mitigation,urban heat
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