Temperature Reduction

MIST demonstrates how heat island mitigation strategies can be deployed at the city scale to achieve local temperature reductions. As a simplifying assumption MIST applies any temperature change uniformly across the city and throughout the year. The tool helps users understand how a particular level of temperature change may impact air quality and energy consumption. Once a desired level of temperature reduction is identified, MIST can be used to explore combinations of mitigation strategies that could achieve this reduction. Alternatively if the user is interested in exploring future increases in temperature - say due to heat island intensification and/or global warming, a negative value can be entered in the "Temperature Reduction" field. Temperature reduction is limited in MIST to the range of -5.0 to +5.0 degrees F, where negative values reflect an increase in temperature.

 

Advanced users seeking more detailed information on this and other topics related to the scientific and modeling underpinnings of the MIST software tool should read the detailed model description document that can be downloaded from the MIST website.