Integrated urban microclimate assessment method as a sustainable urban development and urban design tool

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 386-389

  Wong, Nyuk Hien ^a   Jusuf, Steve Kardinal ^a   Tan, Chun Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Integration; Sustainable urban development; Urban climate research; Urban design tool

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; PLANNING; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; URBAN GROWTH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY FORECASTING; CLIMATIC PARAMETERS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN CLIMATES; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN MICROCLIMATE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; GIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MICROCLIMATE; MITIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79953050770     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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