Indoor thermal condition in urban heat island: Comparison of the artificial neural network and regression methods prediction

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 597-604

  Ashtiani, Arya ^a   Mirzaei, Parham A ^b   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network (ANN); Heat alert system; Heat wave; Time series regression; Urban heat island (UHI)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL COMFORT; THERMAL POLLUTION; TOOLS;

ALERT SYSTEMS; AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; HEAT WAVES; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR THERMAL CONDITIONS; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; TIME-SERIES REGRESSION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84897993328     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.018     Document Type: Article

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