Challenges in Applied Human Biometeorology

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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