Tourism climate and thermal comfort in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 281-290

  Lin, Tzu Ping ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Physiologically equivalent temperature; Sun Moon Lake; Taiwan; Thermal comfort; Tourism climatology

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; HUMAN; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE; TRAVEL;

CLIMATE; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE; TRAVEL;

EID: 39449117345     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-007-0122-7     Document Type: Article

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