On the colours and properties of building surface materials to mitigate urban heat islands in highly productive solar regions

Building and Environment

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 162-172

  Radhi, Hassan ^a   Assem, Essam ^b   Sharples, Stephen ^c  

^a Design and Sustainable Buildings ^*  (Bahrain)

^b KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air temperatures; Surface materials; Surface temperatures; UHI

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; HEAT STORAGE CAPACITY; MEASURED TEMPERATURES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE MATERIALS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UHI;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERRORS; HEAT STORAGE; MATERIALS; ROOFS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SURFACES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLOR; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT ISLAND; HEATING; INDOOR AIR; ROOF;

BAHRAIN;

EID: 84888783729     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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