ClimInd (version 0.1-2)

utci: Universal Thermal Climate Index

Description

The Universal Thermal Climate Index is expressed as an equivalent ambient temperature (Celsius) of a reference environment providing the same physiological response of a reference person as the actual environment http://www.utci.org/ http://www.utci.org/utci_doku.php Copy https://github.com/alfcrisci/rBiometeo Given air temperature (Celsius), relative humidity (%), wind velocity (m/sec) and mean radiant temperature ( tmrt in Celsius degree) gives the Universal Thermal Climate Index in Celsius.

Usage

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

Arguments

ta

medium temperature

rh

humidity

wind

average wind

tmrt

radiation temperature

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

UTCI

References

Blazejczyk, K., Epstein, Y., Jendritzky, G., Staiger, H., & Tinz, B. (2012). Comparison of UTCI to selected thermal indices. International Journal of Biometeorology, 56(3), 515-535. doi:10.1007/s00484-011-0453-2

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(data_all)
utci(ta = data_all$tg, rh = data_all$dewpoint, wind = data_all$wind, 
     tmrt = data_all$"RADIATIONTEMPERATURE")
# }