Validation of temperature-perturbation and CFD-based modelling for the prediction of the thermal urban environment: The Lecce (IT) case study

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-83

  Maggiotto, Giuseppe ^a   Buccolieri, Riccardo ^a,b   Santo, Marco Antonio ^a   Leo, Laura Sandra ^b,c   Di Sabatino, Silvana ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Apphia Srl   (Italy)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

ADMS temperature and humidity model; ENVI met model; Land use parameters; Lecce city; Morphological analysis; Urban temperature

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING;

ENVI-MET; LECCE CITY; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL INDICES; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; URBAN TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; HEAT FLUX; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ITALY; LECCE; PUGLIA;

EID: 84984549362     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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