Impact of Building Energy Mitigation Measures on Future Climate

As cities are increasing technological efficacy on greenhouse gas (GH) emission reduction efforts, the surrounding urban ecosystems and natural resources may be affected by these measures. In this research, climate indicators such as heat index, extreme events, intensified islands (UHIs), sea breeze projected for middle end of 21st century to understand change signal variables with without building energy mitigation Cities amplify UHI impacts concentrating large populations critical infrastructure in relatively small areas. Here, we evaluate combined localized metrics throughout across scenarios (RCP8.5) tropical coastal city San Juan. The analysis statistically downscaled global circulation model outputs shows underestimation uncorrected summer daily maximum temperatures, leading lower intensity duration projections from present time which corrected using bias-corrected techniques. High-resolution dynamic downscaling simulations reveal a strong dependency changes events settings, however, intensities shift lower-level grasslands croplands measures (combination white roof, tilted photovoltaic efficient heating ventilation air conditioning systems). have potential reducing 1 °C 0.5 2050 2100 periods, respectively.