Study of green areas and urban heat island in a tropical city

Habitat International

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 547-558

  Wong, Nyuk Hien ^a   Yu, Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Green areas; Island wide temperature distribution; Macro level; Mobile survey; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; MICROCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 12844278811     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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