Opportunities for saving energy and improving air quality in urban heat Islands

Advances in Passive Cooling

Volumn 9781849773966, Issue , 2012, Pages 30-92

  Akbari, Hashem ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

SAVING ENERGY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 84920847636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849773966     Document Type: Chapter

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