HOW VEGETATION AFFECTS CLIMATE AND COMFORT

THE POTENTIAL OF AN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ELIMINATION OF MANS HEAT-NOT TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY ALONE DETERMINES COMFORT. THE MODES OF HEAT EXCHANGE ARE ENUMERATED AND PLACED IN AN ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK THAT PERMIT MANS HEAT TO BE ESTIMATED FROM MICROMETEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. OPEN GRASSLAND AND AN ISOLATED SHADE TREE, A THICKET AND A CLEARING, AND SAND AND ASPHALT SURFACES ARE COMPARED. /AUTHOR/

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1965/93/93-009.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Waggoner, Paul E
• Publication Date: 1965

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 62-66
• Monograph Title: Roadside development
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 93
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Asphaltic sand; Climate; Comfort; Drivers; Ecology; Environmental impacts; Grasses; Heat exchange; Human factors; Pedestrians; Surfaces; Trees; Vegetation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Human ecology
• Old TRIS Terms: Micrometrology
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00204581
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 12 1994 12:00AM