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Gordon M. Heisler
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 63
Citations - 2989
Gordon M. Heisler is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Irradiance & Photosynthetically active radiation. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 63 publications receiving 2823 citations. Previous affiliations of Gordon M. Heisler include United States Department of Agriculture & Northeastern University.
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Quantifying urban forest structure, function, and value: the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project
E. Gregory McPherson,David J. Nowak,Gordon M. Heisler,Sue Grimmond,Catherine Souch,Rich Grant,Rowan A. Rowntree +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of research in Chicago that linked analyses of vegetation structure with forest functions and values is presented, and it is shown that increasing tree cover 10% or planting about three trees per building lot saves annual heating and cooling costs by an estimated 50 to 90 per dwelling unit.
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The Tale of Two Climates: Baltimore and Phoenix Urban LTER Sites
TL;DR: In this paper, the long-term urban climate effects are detectable from an analysis of the GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network) database and a comparison of urban versus rural temperature changes with decadal population data.
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2. Effects of windbreak structure on wind flow
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of windbreaks on air flow has been investigated and it was shown that the magnitude of turbulent velocity fluctuations close to windbreaks is inversely proportional to porosity, with low porosity producing high maximum reductions.
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Impacts of vegetation on residential heating and cooling
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of irradiance and wind reductions on the energy performance of similar residences of 143 m2 in four U.S. cities were analyzed using SPS, which simulates shading cast from plants on buildings, and MICROPAS.
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Ultraviolet leaf reflectance of common urban trees and the prediction of reflectance from leaf surface characteristics
TL;DR: It was concluded that tree leaf reflectance above 0.06 was likely due to the presence of variously-shaped fine epicuticular wax structures on the leaf surface, and increasing the density of sub-micron wax structures corresponded to an enhanced ultraviolet reflectance over the PAR reflectance of a given leaf surface—either S. bicolor sheath or tree leaf.