THERMAL SENSATION IN EXTREMELY HOT AND DRY URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

The calculations of human thermal stress according to steady state energy balance models seem to be inadequate to evaluate human thermal perception in extremely hot conditions and for short term variations of thermal environmental conditions. The presented pilot study has revealed some new aspects regarding the thermal perception of humans in a hot and arid urban environment, where the impact of the frequent short term changes of the thermal environmental conditions cannot be calculated adequately by the steady state human energy balance models. Future research projects are under preparation to further examine these aspects.