Air-conditioning, health and outdoor thermal comfort in some local cities.
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comparable to Singapore in outdoor thermal comfort except in December and January. The inland stations of Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya are, relatively, quite uncomfortable with the latter experiencing average ETs above 76°F for more than half of the year. The most interesting feature of the study is that the East Malaysian towns of Kota Kinabalu (KK) and Kuching (KU) M. IIyas MSc., Ph.D., F.R.Met.S.(U.K.)
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Medical journal of Malaysia
دوره 35 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980