Green-infra strategies for mitigating urban heat island

Abstract

Because of lack of accurate understanding of the mechanism of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and lack of scientific discussion, it is hard to come up with effective measures to mitigate UHI phenomenon. This study systematically described the UHI and suggested the solutions using green-infrastructure (green-infra). The factors that control UHI are very diverse: radiant heat flux, latent heat flux, storage heat flux, and artificial heat flux, and the air temperature is formed by the combination effect of radiation, conduction and convection. Green-infra strategies can improve thermal environment by reducing radiant heat flux (the albedo effect, the shade effect), increasing latent heat flux (the evapotranspiration effect), and creating a wind path (cooling air flow). As a result of measurement, green-infra could reduce radiant heat flux as 270 W/m² due to shadow effect and produce 170 W/m² latent heat flux due to evaporation. Finally, green-infra can be applied differently on the macro(urban) scale and micro scale, therefore, we should plan and design green-infra after the target objects of structures are set.OAIID:RECH_ACHV_DSTSH_NO:T201720515RECH_ACHV_FG:RR00200001ADJUST_YN:EMP_ID:A075721CITE_RATE:0DEPT_NM:조경·지역시스템공학부EMAIL:[email protected]_YN:NN