Thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor environments

Elsevier Ergonomics Book Series

Volumn 3, Issue C, 2005, Pages 269-276

  Dear, Richard de ^a   Spagnolo, Jennifer ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Hot humid; Outdoors; Sub tropical; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957079602     PISSN: 1572347X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-347X(05)80044-8     Document Type: Article

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