Passive and active cooling for the outdoor built environment – Analysis and assessment of the cooling potential of mitigation technologies using performance data from 220 large scale projects

• Published in: Solar energy Vol. 154; pp. 14 - 33
• Main Authors: Santamouris, M., Ding, L., Fiorito, F., Oldfield, P., Osmond, Paul, Paolini, R., Prasad, D., Synnefa, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Ltd 15.09.2017; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Air temperature; Ambient temperature; Built environment; Climate change; Cool materials; Cooling; Earth to air heat exchangers; Energy consumption; Evaporative technologies; Global climate; Green buildings; Green roofs; Heat exchangers; Mathematical analysis; Mitigation technologies; Passive cooling; Rehabilitation; Roofs; Solar energy; Sprinklers; Studies; Temperature effects; Urban areas; Urban environments; Urban greenery; Urban heat island; Urban heat islands; Cool materials; Passive cooling; Evaporative technologies; Urban greenery; Earth to air heat exchangers; Mitigation technologies; Urban heat island

•The average peak temperature drop from mitigation techniques is close to 2K.•The decrease of the average ambient temperature is close to 0.74K.•Almost 31% of the projects resulted in a peak temperature drop below 1K and 62% below 2K. Local and global climate change increases the ambient temperature...