Urban thermal stress climatic mapping: Combination of long-term climate data and thermal stress risk evaluation

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 34, Issue , 2017, Pages 12-21

  Lin, Tzu Ping ^a   Chen, Yu Cheng ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Physiologically equivalent temperature; Sky view factor; Thermal stress risk; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

CLIMATIC INFORMATIONS; ESTIMATION EQUATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICALLY EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURES; POPULATION DENSITIES; SKY VIEW FACTOR; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

THERMAL STRESS;

EID: 85020737929     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2017.05.022     Document Type: Article

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