Determination of bioclimatic comfort in Erzurum-Rize expressway corridor using GIS

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 158-164

  Zengin, Murat ^a   Kopar, Ibrahim ^a   Karahan, Faris ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic comfort; Expressway corridor; Geographic information system (GIS); Inverse distance weighted (IDW)

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATIC COMFORT; BLACK SEA; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATIC DATA; COMFORT CONDITIONS; DIGITAL DATAS; ERZURUM; EXPRESSWAY CORRIDOR; INTERPOLATION METHOD; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED (IDW); RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SUMMER SEASON; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED-UP;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATABASE; GIS; INTERPOLATION; MAP; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOFTWARE; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND VELOCITY;

ERZURUM [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70249145010     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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