Assessment of thermal bioclimate and tourism climate potential for central Europe-the example of Luxembourg

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 193-202

  Matzarakis, Andreas ^a   Rammelberg, Joscha ^a   Junk, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTHETICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOURIST DESTINATION;

BELGIUM; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM];

EID: 84884593920     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0835-y     Document Type: Article

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