Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-141-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-141-2025
Development and technical paper
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14 Jan 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 14 Jan 2025

Simulation of the heat mitigation potential of unsealing measures in cities by parameterizing grass grid pavers for urban microclimate modelling with ENVI-met (V5)

Nils Eingrüber, Alina Domm, Wolfgang Korres, and Karl Schneider

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Parameterization of grass grid pavers for urban microclimate modelling to simulate the heat mitigation potential of unsealing measures in cities Nils Eingrüber et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10966370

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Short summary
Climate change adaptation measures like unsealings can reduce urban heat stress. As grass grid pavers have never been parameterized for microclimate model simulations with ENVI-met, a new parameterization was developed based on field measurements. To analyse the cooling potential, scenario analyses were performed for a densely developed area in Cologne. Statistically significant average cooling effects of up to −11.1 K were found for surface temperature and up to −2.9 K for 1 m air temperature.