Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology

0538819 - ÚI 2022 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Geletič, Jan - Lehnert, Michal - Resler, Jaroslav - Krč, Pavel
Application of the UTCI in High-Resolution Urban Climate Modeling Techniques.
Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology. Cham: Springer, 2021 - (Krüger, E.), s. 177-191. Biometeorology. ISBN 978-3-030-76715-0
R&D Projects: GA KHP(CZ) UH0383
Grant - others:Ga MŠk(CZ) LM2015070; AV ČR(CZ) MSM100302001; AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/3
Program: Program na podporu mezinárodní spolupráce začínajících výzkumných pracovníků; StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985807
Keywords : PALM * Urban climate modeling * Spatiotemporal variability of the UTCI * Heat stress
OECD category: Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Urban population is affected by many processes typical for urban landscapes. Spatial patterns of physical, social, behavioral and environmental elements of urban environments and their interactions with human beings have been therefore gaining interest of scholars as well as politicians and local actors for decades. The combination of climate change, growing urban population and increasing computing capabilities opens up space for new areas of spatial analyses in urban environments—among them analyses of human thermal comfort. Consequently, modeling of thermal exposure as a cardinal factor of thermal comfort in real outdoor urban environments represents a pending and challenging task for urban climate research.
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