Thermal comfort modelling of body temperature and psychological variations of a human exercising in an outdoor environment

Human thermal comfort assessments pertaining to exercise while in outdoor environments can improve urban and recreational planning. The current study applied a simple four-segment skin temperature approach to the COMFA (COMfort FormulA) outdoor energy balance model. Comparative results of measured m...

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Published in:International journal of biometeorology 2012, Vol.56 (1), p.21-32
Main Authors: Vanos, Jennifer K., Warland, Jon S., Gillespie, Terry J., Kenny, Natasha A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anatomy & physiology
Animal Physiology
Biological and Medical Physics
Biophysics
Body Temperature
Earth and Environmental Science
Energy balance
Environment
Environmental Health
Exercise
Exercise - physiology
Exercise - psychology
Exercise Test
Female
Humans
Male
Meteorology
Models, Biological
Original Paper
Outdoors
Plant Physiology
Skin Temperature
Temperature
Thermal comfort
Thermosensing
Young Adult
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Summary:Human thermal comfort assessments pertaining to exercise while in outdoor environments can improve urban and recreational planning. The current study applied a simple four-segment skin temperature approach to the COMFA (COMfort FormulA) outdoor energy balance model. Comparative results of measured mean skin temperature ( ) with predicted indicate that the model accurately predicted , showing significantly strong agreement ( r  = 0.859, P  
ISSN:0020-7128
1432-1254
DOI:10.1007/s00484-010-0393-2