Comparative analysis of green actions to improve outdoor thermal comfort inside typical urban street canyons

Urban Climate

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 251-267

  Lobaccaro, Gabriele ^a   Acero, Juan A ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilbao; ENVI met; Greenery strategies; Pedestrian thermal comfort; Physiological equivalent temperature PET; Street design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948142106     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2015.10.002     Document Type: Article

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