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    @JournalArticle {3062,
    	title = {Green fa{\c c}ades and in situ measurements of outdoor building thermal behaviour},
    	journal = {Building and Environment},
    	year = {2017},
    	month = {2017-03-01 00:00:00},
    	pages = {11-19},
    	publisher = {Elsevier},
    	abstract = {

    Using green fa{\c c}ades in large cities with hot climates has been introduced in the search for more sustainable solutions for urban development. This paper presents the data collected\ in situ\ and quantifies the thermal external behaviour of a green wall and a bare one in the same surrounding environment in the city centre of Madrid, Spain. The methodological approach helps to assess the impacts of both walls on the variation of the urban temperature range at the\ microclimate\ scale in accordance with environmental physical data at different seasons and times of the day. In the summer campaign, the maximum values of air temperature reduction as measured\ in situ\ range between 2.5\ {\textdegree}C and 2.9\ {\textdegree}C which confirmed the values of various other studies using similar measurements. In the autumn campaign, the maximum values were half of the ones obtained for the summer, not exceeding 1.5\ {\textdegree}C. However, these values increased after calculating similar conditions of sunlight in both fa{\c c}ades. This\ comparative analysis\ of the experimental results on a green wall and a bare wall demonstrates that green fa{\c c}ades can have a significant temperature reduction potential in the surrounding microclimate.

    }, keywords = {Green fa{\c c}ades, Microclimate in urban areas, Urban heat island, Urban Sustainability, Urban thermal behaviou}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.03.041}, url = {http://www.elsevier.com/locate/buildenv}, author = {Jesus, M. P. and Louren{\c c}o, J. M. and Arce, R. M. and Macias, M.} }

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