A point obstruction stacking (POSt) approach to wall irradiance modeling across urban environments

Building and Environment

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 234-242

  Tooke, Thoreau Rory ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Christen, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; GIS; Irradiance; Solar; Spatial; Urban

Indexed keywords

3D; IRRADIANCE; SOLAR; SPATIAL; URBAN;

DAMAGE DETECTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TALL BUILDINGS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ENERGY BALANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; IRRADIANCE; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; WALL;

EID: 84872488380     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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