Horizontal Heat Impacts of a Building on Various Soil Layer Depths in Beijing City

There is a lot of research on the urban thermal environment, mainly on air temperature. However, fewer studies focus on soil temperature that is influenced by built environment, especially on the horizontal heat impacts from buildings. In this research, soil temperature was investigated at different...

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Published in:Sustainability 2019-04, Vol.11 (7), p.1979
Main Authors: Zhou, Hongxuan, Chen, Huan, Wu, Yue, Zha, Jianfeng, Sun, Jing, Hu, Dan, Luo, Pingjia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Building construction
Buildings
Computer simulation
Correlation analysis
Facades
Fluctuations
Fourier transforms
Heat
Heat flux
Heat transfer
Soil layers
Soil surfaces
Soil temperature
Soils
Solar radiation
Studies
Urban areas
Urban heat islands
Urbanization
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Summary:There is a lot of research on the urban thermal environment, mainly on air temperature. However, fewer studies focus on soil temperature that is influenced by built environment, especially on the horizontal heat impacts from buildings. In this research, soil temperature was investigated at different depths in Beijing, China, to compare the differences between two locations. One was next to the building and the other was far away from the building (10 m). The locations are referred to as site A and site B, respectively. These two sites were chosen to compare the differences in soil temperatures between them to present the horizontal heat impact from facade. The results show that facades caused horizontal heat impacts on the soil at different depths in the winter, spring, and summer. Basically, facades functioned as heat sources to the soil surrounding them. The mean temperature differences between the two sites were 3.282, 4.698 and 0.316 K in the winter, spring and summer, respectively. Additionally, the thermal effects of the buildings were not only exhibited as higher soil temperatures but the temporal appearance of the maximum and minimum temperature was also influenced. Buildings functioned as heat sources to heat soil in the winter and spring and stabilized soil temperature so that it would not fluctuate too much in the summer. Additionally, the coefficient of variation indicates that buildings primarily increased the soil temperature in the winter and spring and stabilized the soil temperature in the summer.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su11071979