Cooling effect of greenery cover over a building

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-6

  Takakura, T ^a   Kitade, S ^b   Goto, E ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COOLING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ROOFS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

GREENERY COVER;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS;

EID: 0033908707     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(98)00063-2     Document Type: Article

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