Human bioclimatic atlas for Mexico

Morillón-Gálvez, David; Saldaña-Flores, Ricardo; Tejeda-Martı́nez, Adalberto

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2003.11.008

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“…1, is a bioclimatic diagram that has been divided into different zones for which it is necessary to use strategies to achieve human comfort within a building [31]. The x-axis represents the dry bulb temperature and the y-axis shows the fresh air humidity; psychrometric curves in the graph represent the relative humidity.…”

Section: Bioclimatic Architectural Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of bioclimatic architecture strategies for achieving thermal comfort

Manzano‐Agugliaro¹,

Manzano-Agugliaro²,

Sabio-Ortega³

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Section: Bioclimatic Architectural Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of bioclimatic architecture strategies for achieving thermal comfort

Manzano‐Agugliaro¹,

Manzano-Agugliaro²,

Sabio-Ortega³

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

255

123

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“…The upper perimeter may be raised proportionately, but not above 29.5 C (85 F) [15]. Givoni presented his building bioclimatic diagram on the psychrometrics chart in 1976 [16]. In addition to determining the comfort zone on this chart, he showed the design proposals and required installation by determining some zones in this chart in case if the conditions are not consistent with the comfort zone conditions (Fig.…”

Section: History Of Bioclimatic Chartmentioning

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Defining thermal comfort boundaries for heating and cooling demand estimation in Iran's urban settlements

Roshan

Farrokhzad

Attia

2017

Building and Environment

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Show more HighlightsSpatial distribution of cooling and heating days are identified in Iran. New temperatures and humidity threshold for cooling/heating degrees were determined. 14 representative weather stations for the period of 1995-2014 were used. Using Givoni chart we defined and visualized bioclimatic conditions in buildings. 18% of the 148 station days fall in the bioclimatic thermal comfort conditions. AbstractIran has diverse climate variability, comfort boundaries for each geographic region must be defined in order to present current architectural design recommendations and proper mechanical systems design to meet building's heating and cooling energy demand. Therefore, two components of the temperature and relative humidity of 148 stations with the longest common statistical period of twenty years , which have been in daily scale were selected to calibrate and redefine the thermal boundary conditions in Iran. Givoni chart was used to define and visualize the bioclimatic conditions in buildings. The results of this study indicate that only 18% of the 148 stations days, falls in the thermal comfort bioclimatic conditions. After calibration of the base comfort temperature, we found that the upper threshold of this component varies from at least 22.62 °C for Ardebil to 25.94 °C for Dorudzan station and the low threshold of this component belongs to Ardebil with at least 20.13 °C up to its maximum value with 22 °C which belongs to Dorudzan. Spatial distribution of cooling and heating days show that their maximum threshold has been for cores in Northeastern half of Iran, Iran's Western half and some Central parts of Iran and the minimum threshold of these two components belongs to the beaches of north and south of the country. The findings present updated thermal comfort boundaries that can be used by architects, engineers and policy makers to achieve, in turn, more energy efficient homes and high quality indoor and outdoor living environments. KeywordsClimate diversity; Bioclimatic chart; Heating and cooling degree days; Weather stations; Climate responsive design; IranChoose an option to locate/access this article:

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“…The implementation of comprehensive thermal assessment models eventually allows for "translating" climate and weather data into human bioclimatological information. Geostatistical methods can be then used for spatially depicting bioclimatic data on maps (e.g., Svensson et al, 2003;Morillón-Gálvez et al, 2004;Matzarakis et al, 2010;Lin and Matzarakis, 2011;Daneshvar et al, 2013;Topay, 2013). However, the accuracy of this method depends heavily on the availability and quality of point data (i.e., observations; Zygmuntowski et al, 2005).…”

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Climatology and trends of the Euro‐Mediterranean thermal bioclimate

Giannaros

Kotroni

Lagouvardos

et al. 2018

Intl Journal of Climatology

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High‐resolution numerical simulations were carried out for the most recent 30‐year period (1987–2016), focusing on the Euro‐Mediterranean region. A sophisticated thermo‐physiologically significant thermal index, namely the physiologically equivalent temperature (PET), was computed for assessing the thermal bioclimate of the study area and for investigating the presence of long‐term trends, focusing on bioclimatic extremes. Results indicate that the Euro‐Mediterranean thermal bioclimate follows a zonal pattern, upon which topography acts to delineate regional maxima and minima. The conducted time series analysis reveals statistically significant trends that are generally more pronounced for cold extremes. In particular, it is found that the number of days with cold (hot) stress has decreased (increased), with the distribution of PET exhibiting warming of both its cold and warm tail. The south–east Mediterranean and the Balkans are found to be the most responsive to bioclimatic changes, showing coherent and statistically significant warming trends. Overall, the results of this study provide a new point of view of the Euro‐Mediterranean climate, which could be of usefulness in a wide range of future applications. The detailed spatio‐temporal bioclimatic data could be exploited, for instance, to support applications related to tourism and recreation, highlighting regions with favourable or less favourable thermal comfort conditions. Furthermore, the trend data could be employed for quantifying the vulnerability of certain regions to cold and heat stress, in the context of public health applications.

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Human bioclimatic atlas for Mexico

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

Review of bioclimatic architecture strategies for achieving thermal comfort

Review of bioclimatic architecture strategies for achieving thermal comfort

Defining thermal comfort boundaries for heating and cooling demand estimation in Iran's urban settlements

Climatology and trends of the Euro‐Mediterranean thermal bioclimate

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