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A comprehensive approach for the simulation of the Urban Heat Island effect with the WRF/SLUCM modeling system: The case of Athens (Greece)

This study presents a comprehensive modeling approach for simulating the spatiotemporal distribution of urban air temperatures with a modeling system that includes the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the Single-Layer Urban Canopy Model (SL ...

Elsevier Ltd2018

Modeling the effects of future urban planning scenarios on the Urban Heat Island in a complex region

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Sylvain Labedens

Because of the global warming, urban planning strategies must be investigated to reduce the building energy consumption and increase the thermal comfort in cities. In the framework of Energy Strategy 2050 of Switzerland, this research aim to highlight the ...

2018

A heat integration method with location-dependent heat distribution losses

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

Energy consumption in industrial processes is mainly in the form of heat. Thus, heat recovery is one of the main focuses in industrial energy efficiency problems. Heat integration (HI) techniques have been studied extensively to solve such problems. One of ...

2018

High Temperature Heat Pumps: Market Overview, Stateof the Art, Research Status, Refrigerants, and Application Potentials

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This study reviews the current state of the art of high temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) with heat sink temperatures of 90 to 160°C. The focus is on the analysis of heat pump cycles, suitable refrigerants, and the operating ranges of commercially available H ...

2018

High temperature heat pumps: Market overview, state of the art, research status, refrigerants, and application potentials

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This study reviews the current state of the art and the current research activities of high temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) with heat sink temperatures in the range of 90 to 160°C. The focus is on the analysis of the heat pump cycles and the suitable refrig ...

2018

Assessing the impacts of climate change for Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Sophie Maire, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke, Anita Frehner

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impacts studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to ass ...

2017

Physical effects of thermal pollution in lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard

Anthropogenic heat emissions into inland waters influence water temperature and affect stratification, heat and nutrient fluxes, deep water renewal, and biota. Given the increased thermal stress on these systems by growing cooling demands of riparian/coast ...

American Geophysical Union2017

Photoacclimatory and photoprotective responses to cold versus heat stress in high latitude reef corals

Thomas Krüger

Corals at the world's southernmost coral reef of Lord Howe Island (LHI) experience large temperature and light fluctuations and need to deal with periods of cold temperature (< 18 °C), but few studies have investigated how corals are able to cope with thes ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Examining Building Design Decisions Under Long Term Weather Variability and Microclimatic Effects: A case-based exploratory study

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Parag Rastogi, Margaux Marie Valérie Peltier, Minu Agarwal

Thermal building simulation currently uses Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data to guide the design decision-making process or for compliance with energy standards. TMY data usually excludes extremes and in many cases are gathered from microclimatic cont ...

2016

Multi-scale modelling to assess human comfort in urban canyons

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo

As the impact of climate change progresses, heat waves are expected to increase significantly in the future. Coupled with the urban heat island effect, this will tend to have a major impact on the comfort of the inhabitants in urban areas. It is thus cruci ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

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