Reflectancia solar de las envolventes opacas de la ciudad y su efecto sobre las temperaturas urbanas

Abstract

In order to contribute to the proper selection of envelopes to reduce the city temperature, we characterized the thermal behavior of 150 materials available locally, by Solar Reflectance Index. With the purpose to determine the impact of the reflectance of the materials on an urban scale, six urban scenarios were simulated in the city of Mendoza- Argentina, using the software ENVI-met. The results revealed that although the color is a determining variable of the surface thermal behavior of a material, it can be improved or impoverished by the effect of other features such as termination and composition up to 20 °C; as well as by the aging up to 29°C. At the urban level, the results show that the proper selection of materials of the urban envelope could be reduced up to 3 °C the air temperature and up to 12 °C the surface temperature.