Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2022 Plain Language Summary Scientists have found that climate change has adverse effects on human health. Because pregnant women are one of the most vulnerable groups, these negative impacts may affect their fetuses, which make up the next generation.
Narges Khodadadi +3 more
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Assessing heat-related health risk in Europe via the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). [PDF]
Int J Biometeorol, 2018 In this work the potential of the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) as a heat-related health risk indicator in Europe is demonstrated. The UTCI is a bioclimate index that uses a multi-node human heat balance model to represent the heat stress ...
Di Napoli C, Pappenberger F, Cloke HL.
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Global forecasting of thermal health hazards: the skill of probabilistic predictions of the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). [PDF]
Int J Biometeorol, 2015 Although over a hundred thermal indices can be used for assessing thermal health hazards, many ignore the human heat budget, physiology and clothing.
Pappenberger F +6 more
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Temperature-Humidity-Dependent Wind Effects on Physiological Heat Strain of Moderately Exercising Individuals Reproduced by the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2023 Increasing wind speed alleviates physiological heat strain; however, health policies have advised against using ventilators or fans under heat wave conditions with air temperatures above the typical skin temperature of 35 °C. Recent research, mostly with sedentary participants, suggests mitigating the effects of wind at even higher temperatures ...
Bröde P, Kampmann B.
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Bioclimatic conditions of Lublin based on the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) [PDF]
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2020 The objective of this paper is to describe bioclimatic conditions in Lublin and Radawiec in the period 1976–2015 using the UTCI index. The paper shows that in Lublin and Radawiec, the most frequent biometeorological conditions caused no heat stress and ...
Dobek Mateusz +2 more
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UTCI climatology and its future change in Germany – an RCM ensemble approach [PDF]
Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2020 In the present study, the quantity, duration and intensity of heat stress events in Germany as well as their future change and relation with weather types were investigated. A small ensemble of regional climate simulations with the regional climate model
Benedict Manuel Brecht +2 more
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Application of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) for assessment of occupational heat stress in open-pit mines. [PDF]
Ind Health, 2017 The purpose of this article is to examine the applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) index as an innovative index for evaluating of occupational heat stress in outdoor environments. 175 workers of 12 open-pit mines in Tehran, Iran were selected for this research study.
Nassiri P +6 more
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Principles of the New Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and its Application to Bioclimatic Research in European Scale [PDF]
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2010 During the last century about 100 indices were developed to assess influences of the atmosphere on human being. However, most of them have not close relationships with physiological reactions in man.
Błażejczyk Krzysztof +7 more
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UTCI field measurements in an urban park in Florence (Italy) [PDF]
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2020 The aim of this study is to evaluate human thermal comfort in different green area settings in the city of Florence by using the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). Field measurements of air temperature, solar radiation, relative humidity, wind speed
Petralli Martina +5 more
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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 ofthe main issues in bioclimatic research, and more than 100 simple bioclimatic indices have thus far been developed to facilitate it.
Agnes Psikuta (4184275) +7 more
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