Research on Building Coating for Urban Heat Island Mitigation
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biometeorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 1461
Special Issue Editor
Interests: built environment; urban heat islands; building energy savings; building surface coating; solar radiation; air-conditioning heat loads; weather database
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Dear Colleagues,
As you know, the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is currently increasing seriously, resulting in a well-defined, distinct “warm island” represented by the urban area among the surrounding natural landscape. Thus, the call to make cities cooler is getting louder and louder. To provide a contribution to the cause of UHI mitigation, the journal “Atmosphere” is launching a Special Issue on the topic of “Research on Building Coating for Urban Heat Island Mitigation” and is inviting researchers from all world-leading Universities and Research Institutions to contribute their research achievements in this field.
The Special Issue aims to publish state-of-the-art research findings or review articles, addressing the optimization of building coatings and urban paving for reducing the UHI effect.
The Special Issue covers the following topics:
- Research on the building coating materials for mitigating UHI effect, such as diffuse highly reflective (DHR) materials, retro-reflective (RR) materials, and other advanced building coating materials.
- The interaction between building surfaces, shortwave radiation, and outdoor thermal environment by means of the filed measurement, lab experiment, and simulation analysis, etc.
- Passive design of building exterior wall structure for the aims of UHI mitigation and zero energy building (ZEB).
Dr. Jihui Yuan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban heat island mitigation
- building coating
- outdoor thermal environment
- advanced building coating materials
- passive design of building exterior wall structure
