Abstract—Global warming, which is also referred as climate
change, is considered as one of the critical environmental issues
nowadays that comes with anticipated effects of increasing
global temperatures. Reactions to this climate change and
concern about its effects are also increasing. Thus, possible
responses to this change are being taken, including different
ways such as future climate engineering. Therefore, this work
intends to observe and discuss the impact of greenery strategies
and wind speed for the urban area with high rise buildings and
maximum sky view factor on the urban microclimate. The
mean radiant temperature is used as the indicator for the
thermal comfort. The study was conducted on the hottest day in
summer in Baghdad city by the evaluation of vegetation, mean
radiant temperature to assess the human comfort in high rise
buildings area. The assessment was done on the hottest day
where the mean radiant temperature, sky view factor, air
temperature distributions have been analysed using ENVI-met
version 4.0 which allows simulating three-dimension
geometrical configuration that performs an essential role in
controlling longwave radiation heat loss, which shows the effect
of different patterns of greenery strategies on the climate in the
area of study. As a result of this modelling process and among
the four scenarios that were simulated, the scenario of green
ground was found as an effective solution to provide thermal
comfort during summer time in the study area.
Index Terms—Global warming, vegetation, thermal comfort,
mean radiant temperature, ENVI-met.
The authors are with the the College of Engineering, University of
Mustansiriyah, Baghad, Iraq (e-mail: uaad.ridha@gmail.com).
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Cite: Suaad J. Ridha, Mustafa A. M. Al-Shammari, and Hussein K. Khalaf, "The Effect of Greenery Strategies and Sky View Factor
on Mean Radiant Temperature in an Arid Climate," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 492-496, 2018.
