A note on the evolution of the daily pattern of thermal comfort-related micrometeorological parameters in small urban sites in Athens

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1223-1236

  Charalampopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Tsiros, Ioannis ^a   Chronopoulou Sereli, Aikaterini ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Athens; Human thermal comfort; Mean radiant temperature; Physiologically equivalent temperature; Urban microclimate

Indexed keywords

CITY; GREECE; HUMAN; PLANT; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

CITIES; GREECE; HUMANS; PLANTS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING;

EID: 84938995168     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-014-0934-1     Document Type: Article

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