Study on Tourism Climate Comfort Level in East China Based on GIS

Abstract:

This paper calculated THI and K with GIS technology, and analyzed the tourism climate comfort level of East China based on the monthly average meteorological data of 30 years from 132 whether stations in East China. Results show that THI of East China decrease gradually from south to north, from low altitude to high altitude. The annual period of comfortable climate is longer when analyzed in terms of K rather than THI. The tourism climate comfortable period of East China shows significant regional difference, the maximum value distributed around Fujian province, and the minimum value distributed around Tai Mount in Shandong province. The predominant length of climate comfortable period in China is 5 months per year, while areas that have climate comfortable period for 10 months are most limited.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1073-1076)
• Pages: 1965-1971
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1073-1076.1965
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Ming Zhang*
• Keywords: Climate Comfort Level, East China, K, Kriging Interpolation, THI

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