Humidex {ThermIndex}

Humidex Index for Thermal Comfort

Description

Calculates the Thermal Comfort Index Humidex for daily or hourly data series, based on the formula purposed by Masterton and Richardson (1979).

Usage

humidex(temp,ur)

Arguments

temp

Numerical Vector of Mean Temperature Values in celsius

ur

Numerical Vector of Relative Humidity in percentual

Value

Numerical vectors containing the Humidex Index Values

Author(s)

Francisco Jablinski Castelhano - Laboclima/Univesidade Federal do Paraná

References

Masterton,J.M., Richardson,F.A.,Humidex ; a method of quantifying human discomfort due to excessive heat and humidity,Environment Canada,1979

See Also

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/humidex.html

Examples

##----Performing the Humidex calculation
humidex(temp=21.2,ur = 97)