Author/Editor     Hoeppe, Peter
Title     Aspects of human biometeorology in past, present and future
Type     članek
Source     In: Hočevar A, Črepinšek Z, Kajfež-Bogataj L, editors. Biometeorology 14. Proceedings of the 14th international congress of biometeorology. Part 2. (Vol 1); 1996 Sep 1-8; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Slovenian meteorological society,
Publication year     1996
Volume     str. 63-72
Language     eng
Abstract     Human-Biometerology is quite a old science. Already at the times of Hippokrates in ancient Greece the influence of weather changes on physiological processes in the human body were regarded as existent. But not until the progress in modern statistics, physics and physiology in the course of this century provided quantitative methods, Human-Biometeorology became an acknowledged natural science. While in the first half of this century primarily the explanation of the phenomena of reactions of the body on weather changes was the general objective, in the second half quantitative descriptions of thermal interchanges between the human body and the environment by means of energy balance models of the human body gained increasing importance. Modern Human-Biometeorology, the methods of which increasingly are being acknowledged by potential appliers like urban or regional planners or air conditioning engineers, tries to assess all atmospheric influences in its entirety - also the air pollution pattern. It considers itself as a science branch which is tied closely to the scinetific disciplines "environmental meteorology" and "environmental medicine",
Descriptors     ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE
METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS
WEATHER
CLIMATE
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE