Urban outdoor thermal comfort prediction for public square in moderate and dry climate

ISBEIA 2011 - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 308-313

  Kariminia, Shahab ^a   Ahmad, Sabarinah Sh ^a   Omar, Megawati ^a   Ibrahim, Norhati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

acceptable range; outdoor; RayMan model; thermal comfort; thermal indices

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE RANGE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE; OUTDOOR; OUTDOOR SPACE; PHYSIOLOGICALLY EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURES; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL INDEX; URBAN CONTEXT; URBAN OUTDOOR; ZONE-BASED;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SURVEYS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84255198200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBEIA.2011.6088827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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