Print Email Facebook Twitter Linking cooling by nature and urban drought reduction to irrigation measures Title Linking cooling by nature and urban drought reduction to irrigation measures: Tackling the urban heat island and droughts simultaneously Author Kool, Thijs (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Contributor van de Ven, F.H.M. (mentor) Schoups, G.H.W. (graduation committee) Hooimeijer, F.L. (graduation committee) Valkenburg, Leon (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Civil Engineering Date 2021-08-29 Abstract To reduce the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect Green Infrastructure (GI) is seen as a key measure. Though, often the need for water to evaporate is neglected. This study focuses on showing the effects of irrigation and increased soil moisture contents on GI within urban areas to reduce the UHI-effect. ENVI-met, a micro-climate model, is used to model various scenarios for a tropical day and a heatwave in the Netherlands. For two Dutch urban areas, with different building typology and subsoil, the current situation, a greener scenario and various soil moisture profiles have been modelled to show the effects of increased soil moisture content on thermal comfort and the UHI-effect. Subject Urban heat islandUrban DroughtCoolingENVI-metMicro-climateIrrigationDrougt reductionGreen infrastructure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c04486a5-126a-45d8-85b3-edb5f3cf8856 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Thijs Kool Files PDF Kool_AM_ThesisMSc.pdf 71.09 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c04486a5-126a-45d8-85b3-edb5f3cf8856/datastream/OBJ/view