Urban Weather Generator - a Novel Workflow for Integrating Urban Heat Island Effect within Urban Design Process

It is well known that local urban heat island (UHI) effects impact the urban environment from a public health standpoint and with regards to heating and pooling energy used by buildings. Unfortunately, neither urban planners and designers nor energy consultants currently have quantitative tools or m...

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Main Authors: Bueno, Bruno, Nakano, Aiko, Norford, Leslie Keith, Reinhart, Christoph
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: International Building Performance Simulation Association 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108779
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5631-7256
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6311-0416