Role of street trees in mitigating effects of heat and drought at highly sealed urban sites

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 33-42

  Gillner, Sten ^a,b   Vogt, Juliane ^a   Tharang, Andreas ^a   Dettmann, Sebastian ^a   Roloff, Andreas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling effects; Leaf area density; Transpiration; Tree species

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; REFORESTATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL LOAD; TRANSPIRATION;

COOLING EFFECTS; COOLING POTENTIAL; LEAF AREA; MICROCLIMATIC EFFECTS; MITIGATING EFFECTS; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TREE SPECIES;

URBAN GROWTH;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASPHALT; COOLING; DECIDUOUS TREE; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MICROCLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSPIRATION; URBAN SITE;

COOLING; DROUGHT; HEAT; HUMIDITY; TRANSPIRATION; TREES;

CORYLUS COLURNA; TILIA CORDATA; ULMUS;

EID: 84936757163     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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