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White roofs and rooftop lawns can mitigate urban heat island effect, researchers say

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-05-25

Alleviating the urban heat-island effect through regulating urban landscape can improve human thermal comfort and living environment in urban residential areas. However, most previous studies focused on the single environmental factor of temperature, ignoring the actual human feeling of thermal comfort, which is affected not only by temperature, but also by humidity, wind speed, and radiation, etc.

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https://phys.org/news/2022-05-white-roofs-rooftop-lawns-mitigate.html