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Projecting the Future Bioclimatic Environment of Bratislava: A UTCI-Based Analysis Under Representative Concentration Pathway Scenarios

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering
Volume 33 (2025): Issue 4 (December 2025)
By: Tomáš Hakszer and  Peter Hanuliak  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2025-0024 | Journal eISSN: 1338-3973 | Journal ISSN: 1210-3896
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Language: English
Page range: 21 - 30
Published on: Dec 26, 2025
Published by: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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Keywords:
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Universal Thermal Climate Index,
Thermal comfort,
Representative Concentration Pathways,
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