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A preliminary assessment of the spatial and temporal characteristics of human comfort in China
Author(s) -
McGregor Glenn R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/joc.3370130702
Subject(s) - china , climatology , environmental science , resource (disambiguation) , spatial ecology , environmental resource management , tourism , spatial variability , temporal scales , scale (ratio) , thermal comfort , geography , physical geography , meteorology , ecology , computer science , cartography , geology , mathematics , statistics , computer network , archaeology , biology
A simple empirical index of human thermal comfort is applied to the problem of assessing China's human climate resource. Considerable spatial and temporal variation of the human climate resource occurs in China. The human climate resource is discussed in terms of its synoptic‐scale climatic controls and the implications the spatial and temporal variations of the resource holds for the rapidly developing tourist industry in China.