Evaluation of Urban Heat Islands Mitigation Strategies Using 3dimentional Urban Micro-Climate Model ENVI-Met

Urban Heat Island (UHI) is considered as one of the major problems in the 21st century posed to human beings as a result of urbanization and industrialization of human civilization. In this study, effects of the variation of physical and geometrical properties of the urban fabric (i.e. cool roofs including green and white roofs and perviousness of paving materials) on the urban micro-climate and outdoor thermal comfort were investigated using 3dimentional urban micro-climate model, ENVI-met. Based on the predicted results, increasing the amount of vegetation and permeable pavements can cool the air temperature down by up to 3 K.