A comparison of biometeorological comfort indices and human mortality during heat waves in the United States

17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Davis, Robert E ^a   Knight, David ^a   Hondula, David ^a   Knappenberger, Paul C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b New Hope Environmental Services   (United States)

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