How do green roofs mitigate urban thermal stress under heat waves?

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5320-5335

  Sun, Ting ^a,b   Grimmond, C S B ^b   Ni, Guang Heng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; GREENSPACE; HEAT WAVE; MODEL TEST; NATURAL HAZARD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84999060188     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD024873     Document Type: Article

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