Heat waves characteristics and their relation to air quality in Athens

Global Nest Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 919-928

  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 pollution; Air quality; Heat wave; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916593176     PISSN: 17907632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30955/gnj.001530     Document Type: Article

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