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BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence links fine particulate matter (PM2·5) to premature mortality, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease. However, less is known about the influence of PM2·5 ...

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Saccharification efficiencies of multi-enzyme complexes produced by aerobic fungi.

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New recombinant fibrolytic enzymes for improved in vitro ruminal fiber degradability of barley straw.

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J Anim Sci. 2018 Jul 20;: Authors: Ribeiro GO, Badhan A, Huang J, Beauchemin KA, Yang W, Wang Y, Tsang A, McAllister TA

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Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environments for mitigating urban heat islands.

Author(s): Chatterjee S, Khan A, Dinda A, Mithun S, Khatun R, Akbari H, Kusaka H, Mitra C, Bhatti SS, Doan QV, Wang Y

Sci Total Environ. 2019 May 01;663:610-631 Authors: Chatterjee S, Khan A, Dinda A, Mithun S, Khatun R, Akbari H, Kusaka H, Mitra C, Bhatti SS, Doan QV, Wang Y

Article GUID: 30731408
Title:Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environments for mitigating urban heat islands.
Authors:Chatterjee S,  Khan A,  Dinda A,  Mithun S,  Khatun R,  Akbari H,  Kusaka H,  Mitra C,  Bhatti SS,  Doan QV,  Wang Y
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30731408?dopt=Abstract
Category:Sci Total Environ
PMID:30731408
Dept Affiliation: ENCS
1 Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata, India. Electronic address: soumendu.geog@presiuniv.ac.in.
2 Department of Geography, Lalbaba College, Howrah, India. Electronic address: khanansargeo@gmail.com.
3 Department of Geography and Environment Management, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India.
4 Department of Geography, Haldia Government College, Haldia, India.
5 School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
6 Heat Island Group, Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: hakbari@encs.concordia.ca.
7 Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. Electronic address: kusaka@ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp.
8 Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA. Electronic address: czm0033@auburn.edu.
9 Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
10 Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Kim Chuan, Singapore.
11 Department of Architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China. Electronic address: wang-yupeng@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.

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Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environments for mitigating urban heat islands.

Sci Total Environ. 2019 May 01;663:610-631

Authors: Chatterjee S, Khan A, Dinda A, Mithun S, Khatun R, Akbari H, Kusaka H, Mitra C, Bhatti SS, Doan QV, Wang Y

Abstract

Tropical cities are more susceptible to the suggested fall outs from projected global warming scenarios as they are located in the Torrid Zone and growing at rapid rates. Therefore, research on the mitigation of urban heat island (UHI) effects in tropical cities has attained much significance and increased immensely over recent years. The UHI mitigation strategies commonly used for temperate cities need to be examined in the tropical context since the mechanism of attaining a surface energy balance in the tropics is quite different from that in the mid-latitudes. The present paper evaluates the performance of four different mitigation strategies to counterbalance the impact of UHI phenomena for climate resilient adaptation in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), India. This has been achieved by reproducing the study sites, selected from three different urban morphologies of open low-rise, compact low-rise and mid-rise residential areas, using ENVI-met V 4.0 and simulating the effects of different mitigation strategies- cool pavement, cool roof, added urban vegetation and cool city (a combination of the three former strategies), in reducing the UHI intensity. Simulation results show that at a diurnal scale during summer, the green city model performed best at neighborhood level to reduce air temperature (Ta) by 0.7?°C, 0.8?°C and 1.1?°C, whereas the cool city model was the most effective strategy to reduce physiologically equivalent temperature (PET) by 2.8° - 3.1?°C, 2.2° - 2.8?°C and 2.8° - 2.9?°C in the mid-rise, compact low-rise and open low-rise residential areas, respectively. It was observed that (for all the built environment types) vegetation played the most significant role in determining surface energy balance in the study area, compared to cool roofs and cool pavements. This study also finds that irrespective of building environments, tropical cities are less sensitive to the selected strategies of UHI mitigation than their temperate counter parts, which can be attributed to the difference in magnitude of urbanness.

PMID: 30731408 [PubMed]