Modeling of thermal comfort conditions inside the urban boundary layer during Moscow's 2010 summer heat wave (case-study)

Urban Climate

Volumn 10, Issue P3, 2014, Pages 563-572

  Konstantinov, P I ^a   Varentsov, M I ^a   Malinina, E P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Moscow; PET; Summer heat wave; Thermal comfort indices; WBGT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927959392     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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