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Figure 1: Thermal gap representation contrasting all the courtyards temperatures versus the outdoor ones.
4. Acknowledgment:
This work has been supported by the National Government of Spain Research Project MTM2015-64577-C2-2-R, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. The authors also want to thank AEMET (Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - State Meteorological Agency, Spanish Government) for the data supplied.
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