calcUTCI {comf}

Universal Thermal Comfort Index (UTCI)

Description

Functions to calculate UTCI.

Usage

calcUTCI(ta, tr, vel, rh)

Arguments

ta

a numeric value presenting air temperature in [degree C]

tr

a numeric value presenting mean radiant temperature in [degree C]

vel

a numeric value presenting air velocity in [m/s]

rh

a numeric value presenting relative humidity [%]

Details

air temperature and mean radiant temperature should be in Degree C unit. Air velocity has to be in m/s unit and relative humidity has to be put in percentage value.

Value

the utciValue value rounded to one decimal

Author(s)

Code implemented in to R by Shaomi Rahman. Further contribution by Marcel Schweiker.

References

UTCI project page on http://www.utci.org/ Original code in Python by Tartarini & Schiavon (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100578>

See Also

see also calcComfInd

Examples

calcUTCI(25, 25, 1.0, 50) # Returns 24.6