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 induced by meteorological conditions to the human body. Using 38 years of meteorological reanalysis data,
Di Napoli C, Pappenberger F, Cloke HL.
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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.
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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 The present study aimed to investigate the applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) as an innovative and science-based index in public health researches, in occupational heat stress assessment. All indoor and outdoor workers (200 people) of Brick industries of Shahroud, Iran participated in the research.
Vatani J +3 more
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AtmosphereThis study concerns the application of statistical learning (SL) in thermal stress assessment compared to the results accomplished by an international expert group when developing the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI).
Peter Bröde +2 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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Deriving the operational procedure for the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) [PDF]
International Journal of Biometeorology, 2011 The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) aimed for a one-dimensional quantity adequately reflecting the human physiological reaction to the multi-dimensionally defined actual outdoor thermal environment. The human reaction was simulated by the UTCI-Fiala multi-node model of human thermoregulation, which was integrated with an adaptive clothing model.
George Havenith +2 more
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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. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) addresses these shortcomings by using an advanced thermo-physiological model.
Pappenberger F +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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