Evidence of past and future changes in health-related meteorological variables across Luxembourg

Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 71-81

  Junk, J ^a   Matzarakis, A ^b   Ferrone, A ^a   Krein, A ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate indicators; Health impact; Multi model ensemble; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; HEAT FLOW; METEOROLOGY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

BELGIUM; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM];

EID: 84895873365     PISSN: 18739318     EISSN: 18739326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11869-013-0229-4     Document Type: Article

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