Assessment of measured and perceived microclimates within a tropical urban forest

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 16, Issue , 2016, Pages 62-75

  Chow, Winston T L ^a   Akbar, Siti Nur 'Assyakirin Binte Ali ^a,b   Heng, Su Li ^a   Roth, Matthias ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b The URA Centre   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Outdoor thermal comfort; Tropical microclimate; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961898759     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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