Characteristics of human thermal stress in South Asia during 1981–2019
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Climate change has significantly increased the frequency and intensity of human thermal stress, with relatively more severe impacts than those of pure temperature extremes.
Safi Ullah +8 more
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Intensity of heat stress in 2015 and 2018 summer seasons in the region of the Lower Silesia (Poland)
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2020 The main goal of this paper was to assess the intensity of heat stress in Lower Silesia, Poland, during selected weather events characterized by high air temperatures.
Miszuk Bartłomiej
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Investigating Ladybug as A Tool for Measuring Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Neighborhoods [PDF]
JES: Journal of Engineering SciencesThe increasing global temperature has increased awareness of enhancing Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC). OTC has become a primary indicator for the effectiveness of urban environments, which directly affects inhabitants' health, comfort, and quality of life.
Aya El-Bahrawy
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CMIP6 models informed summer human thermal discomfort conditions in Indian regional hotspot
Scientific Reports, 2023 The frequency and intensity of extreme thermal stress conditions during summer are expected to increase due to climate change. This study examines sixteen models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) that have been bias-adjusted ...
Krishna Kumar Shukla, Raju Attada
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Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and synoptic circulation patterns over the metropolitan city of Athens, Greece [PDF]
Global NEST Journal, 2018 <p>The present study aims to investigate the human thermal stress with respect to the synoptic scale circulation over the metropolitan city of Athens in Greece. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) was applied in order to assess the levels of thermal stress employing three-hour meteorological data for four stations of the urban complex for ...
Katavoutas, G., Flocas, H.A.
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Towards a Digital Temporal Thermal Comfort Model: Integrating Field Measurements and Geospatial Analysis for Urban Microclimate Assessment in Rabat, Morocco [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesUrban environments face increasing challenges related to thermal discomfort and heat stress due to climate change and rapid urbanization. This study presents a methodology for developing a 4D digital thermal comfort model by integrating time-series ...
C. Delasse +6 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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Buildings, 2022 With the acceleration of urbanization throughout the world, climate problems related to climate change including urban heat islands and global warming have become challenges to urban human settlements.
Yu Cong +6 more
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Human-biometeorological conditions in the southern Baltic coast based on the universal thermal climate index (UTCI) [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2017 The paper focuses on bioclimatic conditions in the southern part of the Baltic coast based on universal thermal climate index values. Taking into consideration the observational data from coastline stations as well as reanalysis data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction and National Center for Atmospheric Research (sea level pressure ...
Leszek Kolendowicz +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2021 The modelling of thermal exposure in outdoor urban environments is a highly topical challenge in modern climate research. This paper presents the results derived from a new micrometeorological model that employs an integrated biometeorology module to ...
Jan Geletič +4 more
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