Improving the operational forecasts of outdoor Universal Thermal Climate Index with post-processing.

ABSTRACT: The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is a thermal comfort index that describes how the human body experiences ambient conditions. It has units of temperature and considers physiological aspects of the human body. It takes into account the effect of air temperature, humidity, wind, radiation, and clothes. It is increasingly used in many countries as a measure of thermal comfort for outdoor conditions, and its value is calculated as part of the operational meteorological forecast. At the same time, forecasts of outdoor UTCI tend to have a relatively large error caused by the error of meteorological forecasts. In Slovenia, there is a relatively dense network of meteorological stations. Crucially, at these stations, global solar radiation measurements are performed continuously, which ma

SUBMITTER: Kuzmanovic D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11636700 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature