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Xiaohuan Xie, Haitao Liao, Ruobing Wang and Zhonghua Gou
In recent years, semi-outdoor space has become an important research subject in the field of thermal comfort. Overhead space located on the ground floor is a common type of semi-outdoor space in China?s Lingnan region with a hot and humid climate. Its th...
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Damrongsak Rinchumphu, Non Phichetkunbodee, Nakarin Pomsurin, Chawanat Sundaranaga, Sarote Tepweerakun, Chatchawan Chaichana
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This study focuses on the design of a campus public space, located within the Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. This area faces extreme temperatures, creating uncomfortable outdoor thermal conditions and hindering activities that a...
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Henning Staiger, Gudrun Laschewski and Andreas Matzarakis
Application of thermal indices has become very popular over the last three decades. It is mostly aimed at urban areas and is also used in weather forecasting, especially for heat health warning systems. Recent studies also show the relevance of thermal i...
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Ioanna Skoufali and Alessandra Battisti
The present study is based on the assumption that the urban heat island (UHI) mitigation appears compelling and urgent in dense cities. To the above thematic area, recent redevelopmental interventions of open space for the microclimatic improvement and t...
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Andreas Matzarakis, Dominik Fröhlich, Stéphane Bermon and Paolo Emilio Adami
The effect of weather on sport events is largely discussed in the sports medicine and exercise physiology context. It is important, both for event organizers and for medical staff, to know whether the competition is happening at a time and place with ext...
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Flavia Laureti, Letizia Martinelli and Alessandra Battisti
As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing therm...
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Yu-Cheng Chen, Dominik Fröhlich, Andreas Matzarakis and Tzu-Ping Lin
Roughness length is a critical parameter for estimation of wind conditions, and it is therefore also relevant for the estimation of human thermal conditions in urban areas. The high density of buildings in urban areas causes large changes in land coverag...
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Reija Ruuhela, Kirsti Jylhä, Timo Lanki, Pekka Tiittanen and Andreas Matzarakis
Climate change is expected to increase heat-related and decrease cold-related mortality. The extent of acclimatization of the population to gradually-changing thermal conditions is not well understood. We aimed to define the relationship between mortalit...
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M. Akif Irmak, Sevgi Yilmaz, Dogan Dursun
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The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and outdoor human thermal comfort may be affected by several factors such as the size of the built environment, the rate of open and green spaces and different types of ground surface covers (e.g., grass and artific...
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Onur Çaliskan,Necla Türkoglu,Andreas Matzarakis
This study compares the thermal bioclimatic conditions recorded at Bursa (100 m) and Uludag (1878 m) meteorological stations at 7:00, 14:00 and 21:00 LST (local standard time) between 1975 and 2006, by using the physiologically equivalent temperature (PE...
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