Vegetation as a climatic component in the design of an urban street. An empirical model for predicting the cooling effect of urban green areas with trees

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-235

  Shashua Bar, L ^a   Hoffman, M E ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

EMPIRICAL THERMAL QUANTIFICATION MODELS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 0033909026     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(99)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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