Urban microclimate and renewable energy use in cities

Turkbeyler, E., Yao, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4269-7224 and Day, T. (2011) Urban microclimate and renewable energy use in cities. In: The World Renewable Energy Congress - WREC 2011, 8-13 May 2011, Sweden, pp. 3066-3073.

Abstract/Summary

This paper presents an experimental measurement campaign of urban microclimate for a building complex located in London, the United Kingdom. The experiment was carried out between 19 July and 16 August, 2010 at the Elephant & Castle site. The wind and solar energy distributions within the London urban experimental site were assessed in detail for their potential use in areas of high-rise urban building complexes. The climatic variables were measured at every five minutes for the air temperature, the wind speed and direction, the air humidity and the global solar radiation for a period of four weeks. The surface temperatures were also measured on the asphalt road, pavement and building walls at every hour for the first week of the campaign period. The effect of the building complex on the urban microclimate has been analyzed in terms of the solar radiation, the air temperature and velocity. The information and observation obtained from this campaign will be useful to the analysis of renewable energy implementations in dense urban situations.