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Yanyan Huang, Ruixin Tu, Wutikeer Tuerxun, Xudong Jia, Xu Zhang and Xiaokang Chen
In the context of an increasingly extreme climate, Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation of communities through ventilation has recently attracted more attention. To explore the impact mechanisms of different morphological renovation schemes on its wind and...
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Silvia Ferrarese, Davide Bertoni, Alessio Golzio, Luca Lanteri, Claudia Pelosi and Alessandro Re
This work presents the results of a microclimatic analysis in the church of San Panfilo in Tornimparte, in the Abruzzo region, Italy. The church of San Panfilo, dating from the XII?XIII century, preserves in the presbytery some marvelous frescoes of Satu...
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Radoslav Ponechal, Peter Barnák and Pavol Durica
The subject of the following analysis is the Research Centre building of the University of Zilina (RC UNIZA), which was purposely designed as a low-carbon project. The measurements of selected offices were carried out to verify how the building envelope ...
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Ottfried Dietrich and Axel Behrendt
Agriculturally used wet grassland sites (WGSs) with shallow water tables are considered to be sites with a special microclimate. Meteorological measurement series, examining the air temperature (Ta) and vapour pressure (VP) in three regions, reveal diffe...
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Haven Hailu, Eshetu Gelan and Yared Girma
Indoor thermal comfort is an essential aspect of sustainable architecture and it is critical in maintaining a safe indoor environment. Expectations, acceptability, and preferences of traditional and modern buildings are different in terms of thermal comf...
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Alan Kabanshi
This paper explores the flow structure, mean/turbulent statistical characteristics of the vector field and entrainment of round jets issued from a smooth contracting nozzle at low nozzle exit velocities (1.39?6.44 m/s). The motivation of the study was to...
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Vivek Shandas, Jackson Voelkel, Joseph Williams and Jeremy Hoffman
The emergence of urban heat as a climate-induced health stressor is receiving increasing attention among researchers, practitioners, and climate educators. However, the measurement of urban heat poses several challenges with current methods leveraging ei...
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Ivan Lee, James A. Voogt and Terry J. Gillespie
With the expected increase in warmer conditions caused by climate change, heat-related illnesses are becoming a more pressing issue. One way that humans can protect themselves from this is to seek shade. The design of urban spaces can provide individuals...
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Qunshan Zhao, Jiachuan Yang, Zhi-Hua Wang and Elizabeth A. Wentz
Urban green infrastructure, especially shade trees, offers benefits to the urban residential environment by mitigating direct incoming solar radiation on building facades, particularly in hot settings. Understanding the impact of different tree locations...
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Ling-Hsi Chen, Jiunyuan Chen and Chiachung Chen
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a typical biological environmental process to influence leaf temperature, crop water requirement, and greenhouse microclimate. Affecting factors of ET include air temperature, air relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation,...
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