Coping with the immediate experience of climate: Regional variations and indoor trajectories

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-184

  Hitchings, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AMBIENT AIR; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; ENERGY DEMANDS; HUMAN COMFORTS; LOCAL CLIMATE; OUTDOOR TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL VARIATION; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

SPACE HEATING;

EID: 79961215477     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.106     Document Type: Article

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