报告题目:Climate extremes in the built environment: how to achieve urban sustainability under a
changing climate
报告时间:2014年9月26日,10:00am
报告人:Dr. Dan Li
单位:Princeton University and NOAA/GFDL
地点: 大气所40号楼319会议室
摘要:
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heavy precipitation and heat waves, usually
cause significant economic losses and human mortality in cities. Under a changing climate, some
of these extreme events such as heat waves will likely become more frequent and more intense.
In this presentation, how these extreme weather and climate events affect cities and how cities
respond to them will be discussed. In particular, cities are found to be extremely vulnerable to
heat waves because of synergistic interactions between heat waves and the preexisting urban
heat island effect. Under such conditions, mitigation strategies aiming to reduce the heat stress
in cities are strongly needed. New tools are developed to assess the effectiveness of different
mitigation strategies such as the use of green roofs and white roofs at the city scale.