The cooling effect of green infrastructure on surrounding built environments in a sub-tropical climate: a case study in Taipei metropolis

Landscape Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 558-573

  Shih, Wan Yu ^a  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cooling effect; green infrastructure; land surface temperature; Urban greenspaces; urban heat island effect

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; INFRASTRUCTURE; LANDSAT; METROPOLITAN AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 84992188067     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2016.1235684     Document Type: Article

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