Meteorological Institute Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences [email protected]freiburg.de The Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI Goal and State of COST Action 730 and ISB Commission 6 Gerd Jendritzky1, George Havenith2, Philipp Weihs3, Ekaterina Batchvarova4, and Richard DeDear5 1Meteorological Institute, Univ of Freiburg, Germany 2Loughborough Univ, Loughborough, U.K. 3Univ Soil Culture, Vienna, Austria 4Nat. Inst. Meteorology Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria 5Dept. Physical Geography, Macquarie Univ, Sidney, Australia
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Meteorological InstituteFaculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences
• Thermo-physiologically significant in the whole range of heat exchange conditions
• Valid in all climates, seasons and scales• Independent of individual characteristics• Prediction of whole body and local (WCI) thermal effects • Based on the advanced 340-node model (Fiala)• Met input data: Ta, v, vp, Tmrt• Temperature scale index• Reference conditions: Walking 4km/h (2,3 met), Tmrt = Ta,
v(10m) = 0,5 m/s, RH = 50%, levelled off at vp = 20 hPa• Fast calculation procedure for operational use• International standard for human biometeorological core
applications (WMO-Guideline, ISO(?))
Meteorological InstituteFaculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences