Sharma, A.; et al. (2016): Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area. Evaluation with a regional climate model
Sharma, A.; Conry, P.; Fernando, H. J. S.; Hamlet, Alan F.; Hellmann, J. J.; Chen, F. (2016): Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area. Evaluation with a regional climate model. In Environ. Res. Lett. 11 (6), p. 64004–64004. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/11/6/064004.
Urban albedo enhancement. „We have employed the urbanized version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (uWRF) model at high (1 km) resolution with physically-based rooftop parameterization schemes (conventional, green and cool), a first-time application to the Chicago metropolitan area. We simulated a hot summer period (16–18 August 2013) and assessed (i) UHI reductions for different urban landuse with green/cool roofs, (ii) the interaction of lake breeze and UHI, and (iii) diurnal boundary layer dynamics.“