Indoor temperatures for optimum thermal comfort and human performance - reply to the letter by Wyon and Wargocki

Indoor Air

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 554-555

  de Dear, R ^a   Arens, E A ^b   Candido, C ^a   Brager, G ^b   Zhang, H ^b   Toftum, J ^c   Zhu, Y ^d   Kurvers, S ^e   Leyten, J ^g   Sekhar, C ^f   Cheong, D K W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMFORT PERFORMANCE; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; INDOOR TEMPERATURE;

HEATING; HUMAN; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TRENDS;

HEATING; HUMANS; THERMOSENSING;

EID: 84908602588     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ina.12106     Document Type: Letter

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