Monitoring and evaluation of thermal comfort in urban areas: application to Valencia city

[EN] In this paper, it is presented preliminary results of a methodology for thermal comfort monitoring and evaluation in urban areas based on local metering of ambient conditions and Rayman model application. In the framework of GROWGREEN European project it was installed six monitoring stations fo...

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Authors: Alfonso-Solar, David|||0000-0003-0141-075X; Bastida-Molina, Paula|||0000-0003-3516-0090; Montuori, Lina|||0000-0001-7574-7916; Vargas-Salgado, Carlos|||0000-0002-9259-8374
Format: Book chapter
Publication date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/132180
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/132180
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Thermal comfort
Monitoring
Rayman model
Black globe temperature
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Summary:[EN] In this paper, it is presented preliminary results of a methodology for thermal comfort monitoring and evaluation in urban areas based on local metering of ambient conditions and Rayman model application. In the framework of GROWGREEN European project it was installed six monitoring stations for data acquisition of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and black globe temperature. Data of first 5 months of monitoring and modelling of one location with Rayman model to calculate PET (physiological equivalent temperature) is presented. Based on PET it was calculated the percentage of hours with thermal comfort per month, and it was made a comparison between PET and black globe temperature (GT) in order to evaluate the suitability of GT as a single, low cost and robust indicator of thermal comfort in urban areas.