The climate and bioclimate of Bursa (Turkey) from the perspective of tourism

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 417-425

  Çalişkan, Onur ^a   Çiçek, Ihsan ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TOURISM;

BURSA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84856544757     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0489-6     Document Type: Article

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