Development of outdoor thermal index indicating universal and separate effects on human thermal comfort

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-227

  Nagano, Kazuo ^a   Horikoshi, Tetsumi ^b  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human heat equilibrium; Outdoors; Separate effect; Solar radiation; Universal effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING;

EID: 79952007932     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-010-0327-z     Document Type: Article

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