utci {ClimInd}

Universal Thermal Climate Index

Description

The Universal Thermal Climate is defined as the air temperature of the reference condition causing the same model response as actual conditions. The deviation of UTCI from air temperature, depends on the values of air and mean radiant temperature), wind speed and humidity.

Usage

utci(
  taverage,
  rh,
  w,
  tmrt,
  data_names = NULL,
  time.scale = YEAR,
  na.rm = FALSE
)

Arguments

taverage

daily mean temperature, Celsius

rh

relative humidity, percentage

w

average wind, m/s

tmrt

radiation temperature, Celsius

data_names

names of each period of time

time.scale

month, season or year

na.rm

logical. Should missing values (including NaN) be removed?

Value

index value

References

Blazejczyk, K.; Jendritzky, G.; Bröde, P.; Fiala, D.; Havenith, G.; Epstein, Y., Psikuta, A.; Kampmann, B. 2013. An introduction to the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). Geographia Polonica, 86 (1), pp.5-10. http://www.utci.org/

Examples

data(data_all)
utci(ta = data_all$tg, rh = data_all$humidity, w = data_all$wind, 
     tmrt = data_all$radiationtemperature)