The effect of air temperature and human thermal indices on mortality in Athens, Greece

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 591-599

  Nastos, Panagiotis T ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84860470764     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0555-0     Document Type: Article

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