Temperature and human thermal comfort effects of street trees across three contrasting street canyon environments

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 55-68

  Coutts, Andrew M ^a,b   White, Emma C ^a   Tapper, Nigel J ^a,b   Beringer, Jason ^c   Livesley, Stephen J ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CRC for Water Sensitive Cities   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANOPY; MICROCLIMATE; STREET CANYON; TREE; URBAN CLIMATE;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84923010715     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1409-y     Document Type: Article

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