A universal climate-based energy and thermal expectation index: initial development and tests [PDF]
Energy and Buildings, 2013 We protoyped a set of energy indices that can be used to assess, classify and compare any worldwide climate (weather data or extrapolated climate change data) to understand its energy burden on buildings and for the use in sustainable building design.
Emmanuel, Rohinton +3 more
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Universal thermal climate index in the Arctic in an era of climate change: Alaska and Chukotka as a case study. [PDF]
Int J Biometeorol, 2023 AbstractThe modern unambiguous climate change reveals in a rapid increase of air temperature, which is more distinctly expressed in the Arctic than in any other part of the world, affecting people health and well-being. The main objective of the current research is to explore the inter- and intra-annual changes in thermal stress for people in the ...
Grigorieva EA, Alexeev VA, Walsh JE.
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سلامت و محیط, 2016 Background and Objectives: Assessing human bioclimatic is foundation for many programs and plans, especially in the field of healthcare. In this study, human thermal comfort and its relationship with the incidence of diseases were investigated in ...
G.A Fallah Ghalhari +2 more
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Optimal Strategy on Radiation Estimation for Calculating Universal Thermal Climate Index in Tourism Cities of China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is believed to be a very powerful tool for providing information on human thermal perception in the domain of public health, but the solar radiation as an input variable is difficult to access. Thus, this study aimed to explore the optimal strategy on estimation of solar radiation to increase the accuracy in ...
Liu J +7 more
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Improving the operational forecasts of outdoor Universal Thermal Climate Index with post-processing. [PDF]
Int J BiometeorolAbstractThe Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is a thermal comfort index that describes how the human body experiences ambient conditions. It has units of temperature and considers physiological aspects of the human body. It takes into account the effect of air temperature, humidity, wind, radiation, and clothes.
Kuzmanović D, Banko J, Skok G.
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An introduction to the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) [PDF]
Geographia Polonica, 2013 The assessment of the thermal environment is one of the main issues in bioclimatic research, and more than 100 simple bioclimatic indices have thus far been developed to facilitate it. However, most of these indices have proved to be of limited applicability, and do not portray the actual impacts of thermal conditions on human beings.
Krzysztof Błażejczyk +7 more
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Improving Outdoor Thermal Comfort for Elderly in Residential Complexes [PDF]
Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment, 2022 One of the crucial factors for the presence of more people outdoors is to create comfortable conditions. This issue is significant for the elderly due to the different physical conditions.
E. Samadpour Shahrak +2 more
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Spatial-Temporal Pattern Changes of UTCI in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in Recent 40 Years
Atmosphere, 2020 This paper investigated the spatial and temporal variations of the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from 1979 to 2018.
Di Zeng +5 more
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Applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) in occupational heat stress assessment: a case study in brick industries. [PDF]
Ind Health, 2016 Vatani J +3 more
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Mean radiant temperature from global-scale numerical weather prediction models [PDF]
, 2020 In human biometeorology, the estimation of mean radiant temperature (MRT) is generally considered challenging. This work presents a general framework to compute the MRT at the global scale for a human subject placed in an outdoor environment and ...
Di Napoli, Claudia +2 more
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