Effect of urban vegetation on outdoor thermal environment: Field measurement at a scale model site

Building and Environment

Volumn 56, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-46

  Park, Minsun ^a   Hagishima, Aya ^a   Tanimoto, Jun ^a   Narita, Ken ichi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Field measurement; Outdoor thermal environment; Scale model site; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

FIELD MEASUREMENT; MITIGATING EFFECTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OUTDOOR THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATION FLUXES; SCALE MODELS; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN STREETS; URBAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION CONDITION; WIND SPEED;

BRIDGES; FORESTRY; PAVEMENTS;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ENVIRONMENTS; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PAVEMENTS; PLANTS;

EID: 84858729049     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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