Some Interesting Comparative Data about Highly Cited Researchers per Country

Below data for the ratio of Scopus Highly Cited Scientist (SHCS)/million inhabitants for several countries:

Switzerland.........295

Denmark.............257

Sweden...............247

UK......................225

Australia..............217

USA....................207

Finland................188

Israel...................185

Norway................175

New Zeland.........164

Singapore...........135

Urban Overheating and Mitigation Research In Australia

Komali Yenneti, Lan Ding, Deo Prasad, Giulia Ulpiani , Riccardo Paolini, Shamila Haddad, Mattheos Santamouris : Urban overheating and cooling potential in Australia: An evidence-based review.  Climate 2020, 8, 126; doi:10.3390/cli8110126

 

Cities in Australia are experiencing unprecedented levels of urban overheating, which has caused a significant impact on the country’s socioeconomic environment. This article provides a comprehensive review on urban overheating, its impact on health, energy, economy, and the heat mitigation potential of a series of strategies in Australia. Existing studies show that the average urban heat island (UHI) intensity ranges from 1.0 ◦C to 13.0 ◦C.

Results of Stanford University Ranking 2019

The ranking list of the most cited 100000 scientists for all disciplines and per discipline as published by Stanford University two days a go. Happy to be no 679 in the global ranking list for all sciences.

  https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2

An Innovative Method to Evaluate the Magnitude of the Urban Heat Island is developed and published in the paper below

V. Sangiorgio, F. Fiorito, M. Santamouris: Development of a holistic urban heat island evaluation methodology, Scientific Reports Nature, 2020 (2020) 10:17913

 

Urban Heat island (UHi) phenomenon concerns the development of higher ambient temperatures in urban districts compared to the surrounding rural areas. Several studies investigated the influence of individual parameters in the UHi phenomenon, on the other hand, an exhaustive study that quantifies the influence of each parameter in the resulting UHi is missing in the related literature. This paper proposes a new index aimed at quantifying the hazard of the absolute maximum UHi intensity in urban districts during the Summer season by taking all the parameters influencing the phenomenon into account.

The magnitude of Urban Heat Island is increasing Significantly during Heat Waves. Check the latest developments from Sydney, Australia

 H. Seed Khan, Mattheos Santamouris,, Riccardo Paolini , Peter Caccetta , Pavlos Kassomenos :  Analyzing the local and climatic conditions affecting the Urban Overheating Magnitude during the Heatwaves (HWs) in a coastal city, a case study of the greater Sydney region. Science of the Total Environment, Volume 755,Part 1, 10 February 2021, 142515

 

Abstract

Urban overheating coincides with Heatwaves (HWs) and the thermal stress might get amplified in cities. To predict the interactions between urban overheating and HWs, the surface energy balance response to HWs is crucial. HW is a regional phenomenon and the climatic conditions may influence the local conditions to alter the energy budget contrast between a city and its adjacent peripheral areas. The interactions between the urban overheating and HWs are explored in a coastal city (Sydney Australia), also in the proximity of dry landmass, while considering the site characteristics, distance from the coast, and the population density. A positive response between urban overheating and HWs is reported.

Is it possible to Minimize the Energy Consumption of Buildings in the Tropics under Climate Change Conditions , 2050?

Shamila Haddad , Adrian Barker , Junjing Yang , Devi Ilamathy Mohan Kumar , Samira Garshasbi , Riccardo Paolini , Mattheos Santamouris : On the Potential of Building Adaptation Measures to Counterbalance the Impact of Climatic Change in the Tropics, Energy and Buildings. Volume 229, 15 December 2020, 110494

 

Climate change is one of the most significant environmental issues facing communities, while poor construction and absence of effective air-conditioning (AC) predominantly cause indoor overheating. Although AC may help meeting indoor comfort, it increases the vulnerability of low-income residents, triggers large energy consumption, and generates anthropogenic heat, which worsens heat stress outdoor. The capacity of buildings to maintain comfortable thermal conditions without mechanical cooling is the key factor protecting occupants against the rising temperature. Residents of Darwin, Australia, will be largely affected by increasing temperature where the annual peak ambient temperature may increase by 7.4 °C in 2060, while the number of hours above 30 °C will rise by 70%. Based on regional climate modelling for the Australian area and using a building energy simulation platform, we computed that by 2060 the indoor air temperature in a typical residential building may exceed 30 °C for over 4000 h under free-floating condition, with a peak daytime and night-time temperatures of 39 °C and 36.5 °C, respectively.

On the combination of quantum dots with near-infrared reflective base coats to maximize their urban overheating mitigation potential

Samira Garshasbi , Shujuan Huang , Jan Valenta , Mat Santamouris : On the combination of quantum
dots with near-infrared reflective base coats to maximize their urban overheating mitigation potential,
Solar Energy ,Volume 211, 15 November 2020, Pages 111-116

Application of highly absorptive construction materials is proved to be one of leading causes of urban overheating in big cities. To avoid the excessive heat by the conventional construction materials, several advanced heat-rejecting coating technologies were developed during the last decades. The main idea behind heat-rejecting coatings is to have colder coatings with the same appearance and colour of conventional coatings. One of the existing technologies for heat-rejecting coatings are advanced coatings with high solar reflection in the infrared range or so-called cool coatings. Recently, re-emission of the visible-range light by nano-scale semiconductors, known as Quantum Dots (QDs), were introduced as another effective heat-rejecting technology. In this paper, we showed that QDs also demonstrate a very high solar transmission in the near-infrared range, and therefore, a highly near-infrared reflective base layer can significantly improve their cooling potential.