Thermal Comfort Maps to estimate the impact of urban greening on the outdoor human comfort

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 35, Issue , 2018, Pages 91-105

  Coccolo, Silvia ^a   Pearlmutter, David ^b   Kaempf, Jerome ^c   Scartezzini, Jean Louis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c L institut iPrint   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Numerical simulations; Outdoor human comfort; Urban greening; Urban microclimate

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ENERGY FLUX; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENSPACE; LIVELIHOOD; MICROCLIMATE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PEDESTRIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING; VENTILATION;

DUBAI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ACACIA;

EID: 85052435976     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2018.08.007     Document Type: Article

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