Five years of thermal intra-urban monitoring in Florence (Italy) and application of climatological indices

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 349-356

  Petralli, Martina ^a   Massetti, Luciano ^b   Orlandini, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SUMMER; THERMAL REGIME; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; URBAN CLIMATE; WINTER;

FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; FLORENCE [FIRENZE]; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 79957491695     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0349-9     Document Type: Article

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