Air quality and thermal comfort levels under extreme hot weather

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 152, Issue , 2015, Pages 4-13

  Papanastasiou, D K ^a   Melas, D ^b   Kambezidis, H D ^c  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air quality; Heat waves; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

THERMAL COMFORT;

HEAT WAVES; HOT WEATHER; THERMAL COMFORT LEVEL;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EXTREME EVENT; HEAT ISLAND; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; MAGNESIA; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; THESSALONIKI [THESSALONIKI (DPR)]; THESSALY; VOLOS;

EID: 84908209528     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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