Challenges in Applied Human Biometeorology
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biometeorology and Bioclimatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2020) | Viewed by 102969
Special Issue Editors
2. National Meteorological Administration, 013686 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: urban climate; climate change and climate risks; biometeorology; historical meteorology
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Interests: biometeorology; applied climatology; urban climatology; environmental and climate planning
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Interests: outdoor thermal comfort; urban heat island; human biometeorology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Increased exposure and vulnerability to heat stress due to climate change has stimulated new emerging developments in fundamental and applied human biometeorology. Fanger’s book was a historical milestone concerning the physically based treatment of thermal comfort in different environmental and human-related disciplines. By the end of the seventies, new approaches concerning the effects of the atmospheric environment on humans, particularly, in urban areas and the development of maps were established. Since then, biometeorology has grown into a process-oriented field, combining medicine, meteorology, climate change, and climate impacts. Heatwaves and the development of heat health warning systems to protect humans in different spatial and temporal dimensions were the focus of many approaches and studies. New numerical modeling tools, new data sources (e.g., crowdsourcing), and statistical techniques promise that we progress towards predicting the complex interactions of humans and their environment.
Prof. Dr. Sorin Cheval
Prof. Dr. Oded Potchter
Prof. Dr. Tzu-Ping Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Weather, climate, climate change, and health
- Urban and indoor bioclimates
- Climate and tourism, recreational climatology
- Heat health warnings and decision support systems
- Human biometeorological modeling in different scales
- Human biometeorological methods and models
- Planning and climate adaptation for future bioclimates
- Crowdsourcing, big data, and observational systems in human biometeorology
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