New climatic indicators for improving urban sprawl: A case study of tehran city

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 999-1013

  Ghanghermeh, Abdolazim ^a   Roshan, Gholamreza ^a   Orosa, José A ^b   Calvo Rolle, José L ^b   Costa, Ángel M ^b  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boundary; Clustering; Entropy; Microclimatology; Tehran; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875385951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15030999     Document Type: Article

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