A field study of thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor environments in subtropical Sydney Australia

Building and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 721-738

  Spagnolo, Jennifer ^a   de Dear, Richard ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Micro meteorology; Outdoors; Semi outdoors; Sydney; Thermal comfort; Thermal indices

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL STRESS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

METEOROLOGY; MODELING; THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 0037400604     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(02)00209-3     Document Type: Article

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