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Comparativa y calibración de índices de confort para la temporada cálida en una ciudad semi-árida del noroeste de México

open access: yesRevista Hábitat Sustentable
El análisis sobre modelos de confort y el efecto de las condiciones microclimáticas extremas es importante para determinar la relación entre las afectaciones de salud en personas que realizan actividades en áreas abiertas.
Hiram Eduardo Urias-Barrera
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Mitigation technologies for counteracting the UHI effects and for improving outdoor thermal comfort in mediterranean urban open spaces: a study of vegetation and cool materials effects on pedestrian comfort in Rome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The present study investigates the influence of building materials, traditional as well as innovative, and vegetated urban surfaces on the urban microclimate and on pedestrian outdoor thermal comfort in a typical Mediterranean city: Rome.
Battisti, A., Laureti, F.
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A high temporal resolution global gridded dataset of human thermal stress metrics

open access: yesScientific Data
The human thermal stress indices and datasets are vital for promoting public health and reducing negative environmental impacts as global climate change and extreme meteorological events increase.
Hongdeng Jian   +12 more
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The Impact of the Urban Heat Island on the Sensation of Thermal Comfort and Electricity Consumption in Sfax in Central-Eastern Tunisia during the Hot Season

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
This study follows on from the work on the urban climate of Sfax and its energy repercussions. The spatial configuration of the urban heat island (UHI) and the spatial distribution of the thermal comfort indices, the heat index (HI), the universal ...
Marwen Ghribi, Salem Dahech
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Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) for building construction industry - A review of the contemporary developments and future directions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Applied Energy. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and ...
Alam, M, Limbachiya, MC, Singh, H
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The Influence of the Spatial Morphology of Township Streets on Summer Microclimate and Thermal Comfort

open access: yesBuildings
Slow progress has been made on the study of thermal comfort studies in rural streets. The street construction lacks a corresponding theoretical basis, and the difference between city streets and township streets leads to the situation that the increased ...
Wanqi Zhao, Qingtao Hu, Anhong Bao
doaj   +1 more source

Indoor mould growth prediction using coupled computational fluid dynamics and mould growth model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study investigates, using in-situ and numerical simulation experiments, airflow and hygrothermal distribution in a mechanically ventilated academic research facility with known cases of microbial proliferations. Microclimate parameters were obtained
Ali, M   +3 more
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Investigation on thermal-hydraulic performance of outdoor heat exchanger in air sources heat pump [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A plethora of findings exists on the decreasing heat transfer performance of ASHP under frosting condition. This study investigates, using field and laboratory experiments, the frosting behavior and heat transfer performance of fin-tube exchangers ...
Chen, Y   +4 more
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A morphogenetic crop model for sugar-beet (Beta vulgaris L.) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper is the instructions for the proceeding of the International Symposium on Crop. Sugar beet crop models have rarely taken into account the morphogenetic process generating plant architecture despite the fact that plant architectural plasticity ...
Cournède, Paul-Henry   +3 more
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Projecting the Future Bioclimatic Environment of Bratislava: A UTCI-Based Analysis Under Representative Concentration Pathway Scenarios

open access: yesSlovak Journal of Civil Engineering
This article deals with a future projection of the bioclimatic environment in Bratislava, Slovakia, under ongoing climate change. Using Meteonorm-generated climate data of up to 2100, this research paper presents calculations of the Universal Thermal ...
Hakszer Tomáš, Hanuliak Peter
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