Modelling water stress to urban amenity grass in Manchester UK under climate change and its potential impacts in reducing urban cooling

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 350-358

  Gill, S E ^a   Rahman, M A ^a   Handley, J F ^a   Ennos, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought; Evapotranspiration; Grass; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HEAT ISLAND; IRRIGATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER STRESS;

ENGLAND; GREATER MANCHESTER; UNITED KINGDOM;

LOLIUM;

EID: 84881551838     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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