Analysis of equivalent temperature - case of Kragujevac city

Abstract

A more complete climate image of a site is obtained by analyzing bioclimatic indicators. In this paper, an analysis of the physiological sense of heat in the territory of the city of Kragujevac was presented. Bioclimatic considerations are based on the equivalent temperature, which represents the combined influence of air temperature and water vapor pressure. Based on these two climatic elements, the corresponding equations and the Krüger anthropo-climatic classifications, three climate types and nine physiological sensations of heat for the territory of the city of Kragujevac were isolated. Their significance in bioclimatology is that they cause different sensations of heat in healthy and sick people, and can serve as the basis for the expected types of bioclimate during the year. Urban areas are areas of higher population concentration to which the climate elements act stimulating or, on the contrary, discouraging, which depends on the person's health. For the needs of this work, a thirty-year climate period (1981-2010) was analyzed based on the data obtained from the weather station Kragujevac. There are significant historical and tourist sites and natural resources in the city and its surroundings, which can be valorized complementarily. Analyzed values of equivalent temperatures can be used for the planning of tourist activities and in means of tourist propaganda. For this purpose, this work can be a solid bioclimatic basis.

Analysis of Equivalent Temperatures in the Area of Zlatibor in the Function of Outdoor Tourism

“…The largest number of annual vacations is realized during the summer season. According to the research of equivalent temperatures in Kragujevac (Milentijević et al, 2018) and Niš (Martić Bursać, Stričević, Gocić, 2021) during June, July and August in these cities there is an overheated weather type with the " little humidity " class (50-58° C). In the summer months, people look for vacation destinations where the climate conditions are more pleasant than those prevailing in their places of permanent residence.…”

“…based on their values it calculates bioclimatic indices used to determine the bioclimatic characteristics of the studied area (Stanković, 1995;Unkašević, 2003;Pecelj, Milinčić, Pecelj, 2007;Stojićević, 2016). Numerous authors have analyzed the various bioclimatic indices of urban centers (Pecelj et al, 2020;Bursać Martić, Stričević, Gocić, 2021;Lukić et al, 2019;Milentijević et al, 2018), spa (Pecelj, Błażejczyk, Vagic, 2021;Stevanović, 2019;Stojićević, Basarin, Lukić, 2016;Maćejka, 2003), mountains (Pecelj et al, 2017;Basarin et al, 2018;Vujević, 1961) but also regional units of Serbia (Basarin et al, 2017;Stojićević, 2016;Malinović Milićević, 2013) and certain places in its surrounding (Šušnjar, Pecelj, 2014;Trbić, 2005).…”

Contribution to the study of climate change in Serbia using continentality, oceanity, and aridity indices

“…There are also other analyses in numerous studies (Sjögersten and Wookey, 2004;Filatov et al, 2005;Croitoru et al, 2013;Blanka et al, 2013;Andrade and Corte-Real, 2015;Araghi et al, 2018;Jahangir and Danehkar, 2022). There are a lot of research papers dealing with climate indices in Serbia and other countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Vujević, 1961;Maćejka, 2003;Malinović-Milićević, 2013;Pecelj et al, 2013Pecelj et al, , 2017Basarin et al, 2014Basarin et al, , 2017Stojićević et al, 2016;Burić et al, 2018Burić et al, , 2019Milentijević et al, 2018). Climate indices have found their application in many industries, especially in forecasting agricultural production and opportunities for the development of certain types of tourism (Dalezios et al, 2001;Deniz et al, 2011;Moral et al, 2016;Ren et al, 2017;Kamyar et al, 2020;Gudko et al, 2021).…”