Modeling tree shade effect on urban ground surface temperature

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 146-156

  Napoli, Marco ^a   Massetti, Luciano ^b   Brandani, Giada ^a   Petralli, Martina ^a   Orlandini, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; URBAN PLANNING;

ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SURFACE HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ASPHALT;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASS; HEAT TRANSFER; ITALY; LEAF AREA; METEOROLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TREE; TREE SHADING EFFECT; HUMAN; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

HUMANS; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84957603449     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2015.02.0097     Document Type: Article

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