期刊
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
卷 81, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2022.103850
关键词
Urban heat mitigation; High albedo; WRF; WUDAPT; BEP; Melbourne
资金
- project RAFAEL from the Italian Ministry University and Research (MUR) [ARS01_00305]
- project RHAPS from the Italian Ministry University and Research (MUR) [2017MSN7M8 -PRIN 2017]
- PON funds Research and Innovation 2014-2020, from the Italian Ministry University and Research (MUR)
This article aims to demonstrate the advantages and risks of increasing urban albedo in Melbourne through numerical analysis. Increasing albedo can decrease ambient temperature but may also increase pollutant levels. The study highlights the importance of identifying optimal values for urban albedo.
The urban overheating calls for the implementation of mitigation actions. The article aims at demonstrating the advantages and the risks associated with the increase of the city albedo in Melbourne (Australia), through high resolution numerical analyses based on a detailed urban land use. The Weather Research and Forecasting model was used to calculate the spatial and temporal local climate change for three increased albedo scenarios and three different urban densities. In the scenario with highest albedo, the ambient temperature decreases of about 1.6 degrees C in the middle and high density zones and 0.9 degrees C in the low density zones. The sea breeze extends the thermal benefit due to the albedo increase to non-urban areas, despite it is slightly weakened by the diminished land-sea temperature contrast. The pollutant levels are expected to increase, due to a combination of slower winds (drops up to 0.19 ms(-1)) and decreased planetary boundary layer heights (drops from 175 m up to 291 m). High and low density classes have the highest and lowest risk of stagnation, respectively. Due to the contrasting results in terms of thermal mitigation and pollution risks, the study calls for the identification of comprehensive metrics to asses optimal values of urban albedo.
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