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Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI - the first tests

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2011

Abstract

Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is a new thermal comfort indicator. This index was developed within the frame of COST730 project.

A start of research was realized under the egis of the International Society of Biometeorology, Comission 6. The base of the UTCI is a study of the radiation and thermal balance of the human body surface.

The UTCI properties are not known so far, because the index development was finished during a second half of 2009. This article offers a first experinces with the UTCI obtained by statistics with a historic meteorology data from the Czech republic.