Thermal bioclimate in idealized urban street canyons in Campinas, Brazil

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 333-340

  Abreu Harbich, Loyde V ^a,b,d   Labaki, Lucila C ^b,d   Matzarakis, Andreas ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF SANTOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENSPACE; PEDESTRIAN; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLAR RADIATION; STREET CANYON; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN DESIGN; WIND VELOCITY;

BRAZIL; CAMPINAS; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84891658633     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0886-0     Document Type: Article

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