Thermal comfort trends and variability in the Croatian and Slovenian mountains

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243-251

  Zaninovic K ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b   Cegnar, T ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646037654     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0119     Document Type: Article

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