The cooling effect and water use efficiency of urban landscape strategies in a hot dry climate

PLEA 2008 - Towards Zero Energy Building: 25th PLEA International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Shashua Bar, Limor ^a   Erell, Evyatar ^a   Pearlmutter, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cooling; Efficient water use; Hot arid regions; Landscaping

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC ANALYSIS; COOLING EFFECTS; COOLING EFFICIENCY; HOT ARID REGION; LANDSCAPING; OUTDOOR COOLING; SENSIBLE HEAT; SHADE TREES; SYNERGIC EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DEPRESSION; URBAN LANDSCAPE; WATER REQUIREMENTS; WATER USE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85067728055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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