Urban atmospheric environment and human biometeorological studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 175-191

  Ndetto, Emmanuel Lubango ^a,b   Matzarakis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Air quality; Dar es Salaam city; Human thermal comfort; Local climate zones; Urban climate system; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939885746     PISSN: 18739318     EISSN: 18739326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11869-014-0261-z     Document Type: Review

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