The Influence of Urban Street Characteristics on Pedestrian Heat Comfort Levels in Philadelphia

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-123

  Oka, Masayoshi ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELLING; COMFORT LEVEL; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HEAT COMFORTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PHILADELPHIA; SURFACE MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; URBAN MICROCLIMATE; URBAN STREETS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; MICROCLIMATE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN CLIMATE;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951587198     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01245.x     Document Type: Article

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