The urban heat island Mitigation Impact Screening Tool (MIST)

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1529-1541

  Sailor, David J ^a   Dietsch, Nikolaas ^b  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Albedo; Atmospheric modeling; Urban climate; Urban forestry; Urban heat islands

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OZONE; THERMAL EFFECTS; VEGETATION;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN HEAT ISLANDS;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ENERGY USE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT ISLAND; MITIGATION; SOFTWARE; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 34147145953     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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