Researchers found that this method could have cooled the city by around 0.8C in 2018, when the average temperature was 19.2C, around 1.6C higher than usual from June through August.

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Lead author Dr. Charles Simpson from the UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, explained that if widely adopted, the cool roofs could significantly reduce the ground-level air temperature of a city.