biometeorologyn.

1939 Science 29 Sept. 293/1 Biological Abstracts is undertaking a more complete abstracting and segregation of the current research literature in bioclimatology and biometeorology.

1963 AIBS Bull. 13 34/2 Some important biological responses are a function of the environment, and that ecological characterization of these responses constitutes biometeorology.

1976 B. Palmer Body Weather 13 They have learned a good deal about how natural environments affect humans, animals, and plants... Once called ‘medical climatology’, the field has a new name: ‘biometeorology’.

2006 Independent 20 June (Extra section) 13/3 In Germany, where biometeorology (the effect of weather on health) originated in the 1940s, daily weather forecasts include information on what health problems may be in store in certain regional areas.

1940 Geogr. Rev. 30 522 The peculiar methods of handling meteorological data and principles that must be used or developed in order to make real progress in biometeorological research.

1958 Times 12 Sept. 14/6 It is now realized that ‘standard’ meteorological observations are of little practical value for biometeorological studies.

2001 M. H. Glantz Currents of Change (ed. 2) xii. 181 Climate change and health issues were discussed. This time, however, global warming was considered along with biometeorological issues.

1946 Science 7 June 694/1 Since we have the opinions of a medical man and a biometeorologist, I wonder if it might not be wise to call upon an anthropologist.

1988 C. Venolia Healing Environments ix. 77 Many doctors and biometeorologists feel that air conditioning handicaps us by not allowing us to adapt to heat.

2005 Halifax Daily News (Nova Scotia) (Nexis) 18 Oct. 22 Most of us are generally happier when the sun shines, but..biometeorologists say it isn't quite that simple.