Konrad Rykaczewski, Ankit Joshi, Shri H Viswanathan, Sai S Guddanti, Kambiz Sadeghi, Mahima Gupta, Ankush K Jaiswal, Krishna Kompally, Gokul Pathikonda, Riley Barlett, Jennifer K Vanos, Ariane Middel
As populations and temperatures of urban areas swell, more people face extreme heat and are at increasing risk of adverse health outcomes. Radiation accounts for much of human heat exposure but is rarely used as heat metric due to a lack of cost-effective and accurate sensors. To this end, we fuse the concepts of a three-globe radiometer-anemometer with a cylindrical human body shape representation, which is more realistic than a spherical representation. Using cost-effective and readily available materials, we fabricated two combinations of three cylinders with varying surface properties...
March 2, 2024: International Journal of Biometeorology