Biometeorology parameters

Human Thermal Comfort Module

With r3XXX a Human Thermal Comfort Module (HTCM) was implemented in PALM. It can provide spatially distributed values of the three thermal indices

• Perceived Temperature (PT, see Staiger et al. (2012))
• Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI, see Jendritzky et al. (2012))
• Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET, see Höppe (1993))

that describe thermal perception / thermal stress of a sample human being under the local meteorological conditions.

NAMELIST group name: initialization_parameters

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Steering:

Parameter Name	FORTRAN Type	Default Value	Explanation
human_thermal_comfort	L	1	Enables or disables the HTCM (enables = .T., defaults to .F.).

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Since r31xx biometeorology models are available in PALM....HTCM and UV exposure....

Short description of both modules. From here, we will then link to more detailed descriptions.

NAMELIST group name: biometeorology_parameters

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Steering:

Parameter Name	FORTRAN Type	Default Value	Explanation
land_category	I	1	Category for land surface. Here, a detailed description follows...Maybe also link to an example input file.