Green Air Cooling in the City of Yazd - Iran
by Hedieh Soltanpour, Ph.D candidate
Relying on local weather and microclimate conditions, windcatchers, or Badgir in Persian, were strategically invented by ancient Persians to sustainably harness renewable energy for cooling buildings.
This technique effectively works in many arid and hot regions.
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- Asia (1117)
- Southern Asia (312)
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) (130)
- Exact location (54.3448 E, 31.8394 N)
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Samsung
Taken on 31
March
2025
Submitted on 7 April 2025
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
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Hedieh Soltanpour (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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