Human energy budget modeling in urban parks in toronto and applications to emergency heat stress preparedness

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1639-1653

  Vanos, Jennifer K ^a   Warland, Jon S ^a   Gillespie, Terry J ^a   Slater, Graham A ^a   Brown, Robert D ^a   Kenny, Natasha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Emergency preparedness; Heat budgets fluxes; Heat islands; North America; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; URBAN METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; METABOLISM; METEOROLOGY; MOTIVATION; THERMAL STRESS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BUDGET; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; HEAT ISLAND; SOLAR RADIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN DESIGN;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84868094869     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0245.1     Document Type: Article

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