Relationships between summer air masses and mortality in Seoul: Comparison of weather-type classifications

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 35, Issue 9-12, 2010, Pages 536-543

  Kyselý, Jan ^a   Huth, Radan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Air masses; Biometeorology; Classification of weather types; East Asia; Human mortality

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; EAST ASIA; HUMAN MORTALITY; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MORTALITY RISK; SEOUL , SOUTH KOREA; SPATIAL SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION; SPECIFIC LOCATION; TEMPORAL SYNOPTIC INDEX; WARNING SYSTEMS;

AIR MASS; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MODELING; MORTALITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 77954956004     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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