Use of cool materials and other bioclimatic interventions in outdoor places in order to mitigate the urban heat island in a medium size city in Greece

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-96

  Dimoudi, A ^a   Zoras, S ^a   Kantzioura, A ^a   Stogiannou, X ^a   Kosmopoulos, P ^a   Pallas, C ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Serres Municipality   (Greece)

Author keywords

CFD simulation; Cool materials; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904296824     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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