Thermal Comfort in Passive Solar Earth Integrated Rooms

Building and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-166

  Sobotka, Peter ^a   Yoshino, Hiroshi ^b   Matsumoto, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Tohoku University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL INSULATION; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

BRHLOVCE SLOVAKIA; PASSIVE SOLAR EARTH INTEGRATED ROOMS; PREDICTED NEAR VOTE INDICES; SEMI UNDERGROUND ROOMS; SENDAI JAPAN; SOUTH ORIENTED TRANSPARENT CONSTRUCTION; THERMAL COMFORT;

BUILDING COMPONENTS;

EID: 0030105736     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-1323(95)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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