Climatology of discomfort index and air quality index in a large urban mediterranean agglomeration

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 222, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 163-183

  Poupkou, Anastasia ^a   Nastos, Panagiotis ^b   Melas, Dimitrios ^a   Zerefos, Christos ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air quality index; Discomfort index; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COMFORT CONDITIONS; DISCOMFORT INDEX; GREATER THESSALONIKI AREA; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; QUALITY INDICES; STUDY AREAS; SUMMER SEASON; URBAN CENTERS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN STATIONS;

AGGLOMERATION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT ISLAND; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SUMMER; URBAN AREA;

AGGLOMERATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE; COLD CLIMATE; COMMON AIR QUALITY INDEX; DISCOMFORT INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAT; HUMIDITY; MASS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRESS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN POPULATION;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; THESSALONIKI [THESSALONIKI (DPR)];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 80755190117     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-011-0814-9     Document Type: Article

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