Estimation of the tourism climate in the Hunter Region, Australia, in the early twenty-first century

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 565-574

  Shiue, Ivy ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate Tourism Information Scheme; Physiologically equivalent temperature; Thermal comfort; Tourism climatology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; HISTORY; HUMAN; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TRAVEL;

CLIMATE; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TRAVEL;

EID: 79960103696     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-010-0369-2     Document Type: Article

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