BACKGROUND Urban populations are highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of heat, with heat-related mortality showing intra-urban variations that are likely due to differences in urban characteristics and socioeconomic status. OBJECTIVES We investigated the influence of urban green and urban blue, that is, urban vegetation and water bodies, on heat-related excess mortality in the elderly > 6...

Heat stress is one of the most critical factors affecting human life. In Central Europe, its influence noticeable, especially in Polish–Saxon region, which a very popular tourist region also inhabited by high number elders. The main goal this paper was to assess multi-annual changes heat occurring considering frequency days, UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index), and circulation conditions. re...

Abstract The study objective was to determine the spatial and temporal variability of Poland’s bioclimatic conditions designate heat-stress regions with Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) application. based on daily data from multiannual period 1966–2021 obtained for 37 stations in Poland, provided resources Institute Meteorology Water Management–National Research (IMGW-PIB). aforementioned...

OBJECTIVE Climatic factors with desired and sometimes undesired effects lead to changes in the human body, such as hypothermia, influenza, heart disease, stroke, asthma, etc. The present study investigates the role of temperature in respiratory mortality in Mashhad, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among the respiratory mortality data, daily temperature, wind speed and relative humidity from 2004 ...

The objective of this study was to assess biothermal conditions in the selected Polish health resorts for specific forms climatic therapy. We calculated Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) ten-year period (2008- 2017) and then added adjustment terms, taking into account changes metabolic rates during various physical activities from resting vigorous exercise. adjusted UTCI values increased w...

Outdoor comfort is gaining attention in the design of our cities to face current context rising temperatures. Although simulation required inform early stage projects considering outdoor space and strategies improve their thermal performance, different tool options must be compared through monitoring determine accuracy modeling. This study analyses benefits installation a shading device courtya...

In hot, arid regions on university campuses, students are more vulnerable to heat stresses than in street canyons terms of function; however, the knowledge impact built environments thermal performance is still lacking. two summer and winter days, shading effect existing urban trees pattern a campus Egypt was examined correlate their Sky View Factor (SVF) with environment, meteorology, Physiolo...

Over the last two decades, urban geometry has been shown to be a key determinant of microclimatic conditions in areas. This study uses Ladybug-tools, plugins Grasshopper3D optimise building heights, street widths and orientation maximise outdoor thermal comfort, represented by diurnal average Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). In hot-arid climate Cairo, Egypt, optimised parameters symmetri...

Recently, the requirements regarding environment of nursing homes are high, because elderly a vulnerable group with limited adaptive capacity to respond transient environmental change. This paper presents field investigation on influence thermal comfort changes between indoor and outdoor spaces (i.e., air temperature (Ta), solar radiation (SR), relative humidity (RH), wind speed (WS), indices U...