Increasing thermal protection with use of green roof
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The use of green roof is a great choice in case climate change mitigation and reduction urban heat islands. Positive aspects roofs during winter or the whole year round balance are often overlooked. surface highly insulated flat overcooled night by long wave sky radiation. This radiative cooling increases thermal losses that reduced existence additional layers. composition layers also have their resistance, which not usually included within calculation resistance using EN ISO 6946. presence snow on can increase resistance. paper analyzes measurement results various experimental fragments Central Europe.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2336-5382']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14311/app.2022.38.0488