ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR CLIMATE AND TOURISM BASED ON DAILY DATA

ABSTRACT The described method allows the integration of weather and climate for tourism and recreation issues as it implements several factors and facets, like thermal (a.e. physiologically equivalent temperature), physical (a.e. precipitation and wind) and aesthetical (a.e. sunshine duration and cloud cover). Spliting up the months into three periods, which represent more accurately the vacation times, provides more reliable information for tourism and recreation. Additionally, detailed information about extreme events can be given through the use of frequencies of classes and amounts of threshold values