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: Received: 31 August 2020 / Approved: 1 September 2020 / Online: 1 September 2020 (12:19:13 CEST)
How to cite:
balany, F.; Ng, A.; Muttil, N.; Muthukumaran, S.; Wong, M.S. Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy - A Review. Preprints2020, 2020090018. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0018.v1
balany, F.; Ng, A.; Muttil, N.; Muthukumaran, S.; Wong, M.S. Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy - A Review. Preprints 2020, 2020090018. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0018.v1
balany, F.; Ng, A.; Muttil, N.; Muthukumaran, S.; Wong, M.S. Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy - A Review. Preprints2020, 2020090018. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0018.v1
APA Style
balany, F., Ng, A., Muttil, N., Muthukumaran, S., & Wong, M.S. (2020). Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy - A Review. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0018.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
balany, F., Shobha Muthukumaran and Man Sing Wong. 2020 "Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy - A Review" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0018.v1
Abstract
Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of Urban Heat Island (UHI). This paper aims at presenting a review of the range of findings from GI research for urban heat mitigation through a review of scientific articles published during the years 2009-2019. This research includes a review of the different types of GI and its contribution for urban heat mitigation and human thermal comfort. In addition to analyzing different mitigation strategies, numerical simulation tools that are commonly used are also reviewed. It is seen that ENVI-met is one of the modelling tools that is considered as a reliable tool to simulate different mitigation strategies and hence has been widely used in the recent past. Considering its popularity in urban microclimate studies, this article also provides a review of ENVI-met simulation results that were reported in the reviewed papers. It was observed that the majority of the research was conducted on a limited spatial scale and focused on temperature and human thermal comfort.
Keywords
green infrastructure; urban heat island; human thermal comfort, modelling tools; ENVI-met.
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
Copyright:
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