Weather and individual happiness

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-82

  Tsutsui, Yoshiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DATA SET; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STUDENT; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84874239147     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-11-00052.1     Document Type: Article

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