Study on evaporative cooling effect of roof lawn gardens

S. Onmura, M. Matsumoto, S. Hokoi, A Study on Evaporative Cooling Effect by Roof Lawn Garden. Part 1. Measurement and Analysis of Evaporative Cooling Effect, in: Summaries of Technical Paper of Annual Meeting, Architectural Institute of Japan, Environmental Engineering, 1992, pp. 767–768 (in Japanese). H. Horita, M. Nakamura, M. Nishiyama, Research of Thermal Environment for Planting on Rooftop, in: Summaries of Technical Paper of Annual Meeting, Architectural Institute of Japan, Environmental Engineering, 1992, pp. 73–74 (in Japanese). K. Mikado, H. Komiya, S. Shiota, H. Sugimoto, Experimental Study on Effect of Turf Roof. Part 1. An Examination on Thermal Characteristics and Method of Turf Test Model, in: Summaries of Technical Paper of Annual Meeting, Architectural Institute of Japan, Environmental Engineering, 1993, pp. 1525–1526 (in Japanese). S. Onmura, M. Matsumoto, S. Hokoi, A study on evaporative cooling effect by roof lawn garden, in: Proceedings of the European Conference on Energy Performance and Indoor Climate in Buildings, 1994, pp. 634–639. A. Hoyano, J. He, T. Horiguchi, G. Wang, Experimental study on heat budget for foliage layer of lawn planting. Part 1. Effect of rooftop lawn planting on thermal environment, Journal of Architectural Planning and Environmental Engineering (Transactions of AIJ) 462 (1994) 31–39 (in Japanese). Hoyano, 1988, Climatological uses of plants for solar control and the efforts on the thermal environment of a building, Energy and Buildings, 11, 181, 10.1016/0378-7788(88)90035-7 Eumorfopoulou, 1998, The contribution of a planted roof to the thermal protection of buildings in Greece, Energy and Buildings, 27, 29, 10.1016/S0378-7788(97)00023-6 Del Barrio, 1998, Analysis of the green roofs cooling potential in buildings, Energy and Buildings, 27, 179, 10.1016/S0378-7788(97)00029-7 Meier, 1990, Strategic landscaping and air-conditioning savings: a literature review, Energy and Buildings, 15/16, 479, 10.1016/0378-7788(90)90024-D Kumaran, 1987, Moisture transport through glass-fiber insulation in the presence of a thermal gradient, Journal of Thermal Insulation, 10, 243, 10.1177/109719638701000405 Kerestecioglu, 1990, Theoretical and computational investigation of simultaneous heat and moisture transfer in buildings: evaporation and condensation theory, ASHRAE Transactions, 96, 455 Wong, 1990, Fundamentals of simultaneous heat and moisture transfer between the building envelope and conditioned space air, ASHRAE Transactions, 98, 73 Richirds, 1992, Water vapor sorption measurements of common building materials, ASHRAE Transactions, 98, 475 ASHRAE Fundamentals, 1997, Section 3.8.