A study on the cooling effects of greenery on the surrounding areas by computer simulation for green built environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6330 LNBI, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages 653-661

  Song, Jiafang ^a   Li, Xinyu ^a  

^a TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

computer simulation; Cooling effects; greenery

Indexed keywords

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; COOLING EFFECTS; GREEN AREAS; GREENERY; SINGAPORE; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; URBAN LANDSCAPE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COOLING; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78649583316     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15615-1_77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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