Investigation of heat islands using small scale models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 467-474

  Poreh, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Physical models; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

HEAT ISLANDS; SIMPLE HEAT ISLAND; SMALL SCALE MODELS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

LOCAL TEMPERATURE FIELD; PHYSICAL MODELLING; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

EID: 0030072290     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00011-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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