Assessing summertime urban air conditioning consumption in a semiarid environment

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Salamanca, F ^a   Georgescu, M ^a   Mahalov, A ^a   Moustaoui, M ^a   Wang, M ^a   Svoma, B M ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; URBAN PLANNING;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; ELECTRIC CONSUMPTION; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; GLOBAL PROJECTION; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SUSTAINABLE PLANNING; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR CONDITIONING; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY USE; EXTREME EVENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; SEMIARID REGION; SUMMER; URBAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84885606095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034022     Document Type: Article

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