A new methodology for quantifying on-site residential and commercial fossil fuel CO2 emissions at the building spatial scale and hourly time scale

Carbon Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-56

  Zhou, Yuyu ^a   Gurney, Kevin ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BUILDING STRUCTURE; CARBON EXCHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; ENERGY SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS; FLOOR AREAS; INDIANAPOLIS; LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE SCALE; PER UNIT; PILOT STUDIES; PRODUCTION FACILITY; ROAD SEGMENTS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; URBAN CORE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRODUCTION; REGIONAL PLANNING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 79955013059     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.10.7     Document Type: Article

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