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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,592 Views
22 Pages

With global warming and the rapid development of urbanization, the outdoor thermal environment is deteriorating. More and more research focuses on the outdoor thermal environment and thermal comfort. The globe thermometer method is widely used in mor...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,614 Views
9 Pages

21 November 2019

Most human energy budget models consider a person to be approximately cylindrical in shape when estimating or measuring the amount of radiation that they receive in a given environment. Yet, the most commonly used instrument for measuring the amount...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,309 Views
17 Pages

Mean Radiant Temperature Measurements through Small Black Globes under Forced Convection Conditions

  • Francesca Romana d’Ambrosio Alfano,
  • Giorgio Ficco,
  • Andrea Frattolillo,
  • Boris Igor Palella and
  • Giuseppe Riccio

One of the most critical variables in the field of thermal comfort measurements is the mean radiant temperature which is typically measured with a standard 150 mm black globe thermometer. This is also the reference instrument required for the assessm...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,323 Views
12 Pages

3 April 2018

This research concerns a first approach to adapt the thermal comfort bands of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET), New Standard Effective Temperature (SET), and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) indices to Santa Maria’s population, Rio Grande do S...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,195 Views
25 Pages

25 February 2022

The MoBiMet (Mobile Biometeorology System) is a low-cost device for thermal comfort monitoring, designed for long-term deployment in indoor or semi-outdoor occupational contexts. It measures air temperature, humidity, globe temperature, brightness te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,430 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2023

Mean radiant temperature (MRT) is important for indoor thermal comfort determination. Several good ways to practically obtain accurate MRT include measuring all indoor surface temperatures for MRT calculation or using a black globe thermometer. Still...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,828 Views
11 Pages

Current methods for estimating heat vulnerability of young athletes use a heat index (HI) or a wet bulb globe thermometer (WBGT), neither of which fully include the environmental or physiological characteristics that can affect a person’s heat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,429 Views
22 Pages

30 July 2020

The concept of the mean radiant temperature (Tmrt) allows the study of radiative exchanges between a human and its environment. It presupposes that the radiant effects on the person of the actual environment, which is generally heterogeneous, and the...