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Weather and emotional state: a search for associations between weather and calls to telephone counseling services
dc.creator | Stillman, Daniel Noah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T23:01:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T23:01:26Z | |
dc.date.created | 2000 | |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2000-THESIS-S77 | |
dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-79). | en |
dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Calls to four telephone counseling services, or "hotlines", each serving communities in a major metropolitan area of the United States (Detroit, Washington DC, Dallas and Seattle), were analyzed for influence from daily weather. Associations with synoptic weather types, as well as with individual weather elements, were investigated. Although no conclusive evidence was found linking weather to emotional state, calls tended to be fewer for ''nice'' weather conditions. Specifically, two of the three hotlines included in the weather type analysis - those in the Detroit and Washington areas - experienced a decrease in calls on ''ridge'' days, classified as such when the metropolitan area was positioned near the center of high pressure; these days were characterize by sunny and dry conditions with light winds. The decrease was statistically significant only for Detroit, but consistent across seasons except fall for both Detroit and Washington. Consistent with this finding, calls tended to increase with cloudiness for two of the hotlines - Detroit and Seattle - and occur more on days with precipitation for all but the Dallas hotline. | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.subject | meteorology. | en |
dc.subject | Major meteorology. | en |
dc.title | Weather and emotional state: a search for associations between weather and calls to telephone counseling services | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | meteorology | en |
thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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