Green roofs are effective in cooling and mitigating urban heat islands to improve human thermal comfort
Taize Calvacante Santana, Cristiane Guiselini, Abelardo Antônio de Assunção Montenegro, Héliton Pandorfi, Rodes Ângelo Batista da Silva, Renan da Silva e Silva, Pedro Henrique Dias Batista, Sávio Duarte Lopes Cavalcanti, Nicoly Farias Gomes, Marcos Vinícius da Silva, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim
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