Thermal footprint effect of rooftop urban cooling strategies

Urban Climate

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 268-277

  Botham Myint, Dylan ^a   Recktenwald, Gerald W ^a   Sailor, David J ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building heights; Cool roofs; Heat island mitigation; Urban climate; Urban heat islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939526910     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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