Field study of thermal comfort in residential buildings in the equatorial hot-humid climate of Malaysia

Building and Environment

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 133-142

  Djamila, Harimi ^a   Chu, Chi Ming ^a   Kumaresan, Sivakumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Hot humid tropics; Residential buildings; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOTHING INSULATION; COMFORT TEMPERATURES; FIELD STUDIES; HOT HUMID CLIMATE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR CLIMATE; INDOOR COMFORT TEMPERATURES; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; INDOOR THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS; JAKARTA; MALAYSIA; METABOLIC RATES; NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SINGAPORE; STEPWISE REGRESSION; WIND VELOCITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDINGS; FORECASTING; THERMAL COMFORT;

TROPICS;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR TEMPERATURE; BUILDING; HUMID TROPICS; INDOOR AIR; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

EAST MALAYSIA; INDONESIA; JAKARTA; KOTA KINABALU; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

EID: 84873933807     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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