The cooling efficiency of urban landscape strategies in a hot dry climate

This paper describes a climatic analysis of landscape strategies for outdoor cooling in a hot-arid region, considering the efficiency of water use. Six landscape strategies were studied, using different combinations of trees, lawn, and an overhead shade mesh. The effects of these treatments were tes...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Landscape and urban planning 2009-09, Vol.92 (3), p.179-186
Hauptverfasser:	Shashua-Bar, Limor, Pearlmutter, David, Erell, Evyatar
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal, plant and microbial ecology Applied ecology Biological and medical sciences Cooling Efficient water use Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects Hot-arid regions Shading Urban microclimate
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