Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Taleghani, Mohammad ^a   Sailor, David ^b,c   Ban Weiss, George A ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

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

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cool pavements; cool roofs; heat mitigation; mean radiant temperature; microclimate; outdoor thermal comfort; vegetative roofs

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORESTRY; LOCATION; PAVEMENTS; ROOFS;

COOL ROOFS; MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE; MICROCLIMATE; OUTDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; VEGETATIVE ROOFS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT ISLAND; MICROCLIMATE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PAVEMENT; PEDESTRIAN; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN PLANNING;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959386803     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024003     Document Type: Article

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