Evaluating mitigation effects of urban heat islands in a historical small center with the ENVI-Met® climate model

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7013-7029

  Ambrosini, Dario ^a   Galli, Giorgio ^b   Mancini, Biagio ^a   Nardi, Iole ^a   Sfarra, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cool roof; ENVI MET ; Green roof; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT ISLAND; MAGNITUDE; MONITORING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; URBAN AREA; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ITALY;

EID: 84910031161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6107013     Document Type: Article

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