Thermal comfort in outdoor urban spaces in Singapore

Building and Environment

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 426-435

  Yang, Wei ^a   Wong, Nyuk Hien ^a   Jusuf, Steve Kardinal ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acceptable operative temperature range; Correlation analysis; Outdoor urban spaces; Thermal adaptation; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABILITY ANALYSIS; COMFORT PERCEPTION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIELD STUDIES; HEAT STRESS; INDOOR CONDITIONS; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; OUTDOOR SPACE; SINGAPORE; THERMAL ADAPTATION; THERMAL SENSATIONS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; URBAN SPACES;

CORRELATION METHODS; URBAN PLANNING;

THERMAL COMFORT;

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; PERCEPTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; URBAN AREA;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84870452274     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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