The cooling effect of paddy fields on summertime air temperature in residential Tokyo, Japan

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 53, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 17-27

  Yokohari, Makoto ^a   Brown, Robert D ^b   Kato, Yoshitake ^c   Yamamoto, Shori ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Design; Human thermal comfort; Microclimate; Planning; Urban fringe

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING; PADDY FIELD; SUBURBAN AREA; SUMMER;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOKYO;

EID: 0035969917     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(00)00123-7     Document Type: Article

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