Dong Chen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the potential impact of climate change on the heating and cooling (H/C) energy requirements of residential houses in five regional climates varying from cold to hot humid in Australia.

TL;DR: Around 5-28% and 37-99% reduction in heat related mortality rate have been estimated by doubling the city's vegetation coverage and transforming the city into parklands respectively with the limited buildings and local meso-climates investigated in this study.

TL;DR: A consistent and significant increase in mortality was observed during heatwaves in the three largest Australian cities, but the impacts of heatwave appeared to vary with age, gender, the HWD and geographical area.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of solar irradiance, wind speed and ambient temperature on the PV panel temperature were studied, and the effect of thermal hysteresis on the photovoltaic efficiency was assessed based on real-time temperature measurement of solar cells in realistic weather conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the heating and cooling (H-C) energy requirements and corresponding carbon emissions of residential houses in different climatic conditions in relation to global warming, and concluded that the design and assessment of carbon emission reduction schemes for residential buildings need to move beyond its assumptions of a current or stationary climate to take into account climate change impacts.