A green roof model for building energy simulation programs

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1466-1478

  Sailor, D J ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy; Ecoroof; Energy model; EnergyPlus; Green roof; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VEGETATION;

BUILDING ENERGY; ECOROOF; ENERGY MODELS; ENERGYPLUS; GREEN ROOF;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 43049103809     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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