scholarly journals A Study of The Relationship Between Bioclimatic Comfort Zones And Land Use: The Case of Sivas Province (Turkey)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Bülent Karakuş ◽  
Demet Demiroglu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Climatic Data ◽  
Physiological Equivalent Temperature ◽  
Bioclimatic Indices ◽  
Climate Parameters ◽  
Bioclimatic Comfort ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between bioclimatic comfort zones and land use in Sivas province. In this context, the relationship between the climatic data of 1990 and 2018 and the land use data of Sivas province belonging to the same years was evaluated as seasonal and annual periods. The bioclimatic comfort zones in the study area were determined depending on environmental climatic parameters (ECP) [temperature (T), relative humidity (RH) and wind speed (WS)] and bioclimatic indices [Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET), Thermo Hygrometric Index (THI), and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)]. The values of the environmental climate parameters of Sivas province for the relevant years were obtained from 9 meteorological stations, the height of which varies between 1121 m and 1528 m. With the help of the Geographical Information System (GIS), the spatial distribution of the bioclimatic comfort zones determined depending on the environmental climate parameters and bioclimatic indices were created. Land use maps of the study area for reference years were obtained by using CORINE land cover data. The relationship between bioclimatic comfort zones and land use was also determined with the help of GIS. According to the results of this study; It was determined that the land use type in which the bioclimatically comfortable areas overlap in Sivas province differs according to the used parameter/indexes, years and annual periods.

scholarly journals Modern assessment methods of comfort of bioclimatic conditions for resort areas

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
A.A. Stefanovich ◽  
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E.N. Voskresenskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Physiological Equivalent Temperature ◽  
Optimal Method ◽  
Bioclimatic Indices ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
Bioclimatic Conditions ◽  
Bioclimatic Indicators

The modern approaches to assessing the comfort of bioclimatic conditions for rational recreational activities are analyzed. A review of modern domestic and foreign methods is carried out and their advantages and disadvantages in assessing the thermal comfort of a human are identified. Most of the bioclimatic indicators used are now considered outdated, since they do not take into account human physiological reactions. Many foreign authors are increasingly using in their practice more complex thermal bioclimatic indices based on the human energy balance. In Russia, such studies are still rare. From the indices based on the human heat balance, the paper considers the following: Physiological equivalent temperature (PET), Perceived temperature (PMV), Universal thermal climate index (UTCI). The main algorithms for calculating bioclimatic indices are proposed. The calculations use the complete human thermal balance equation and all parameters that affect human comfort. Calculation of bioclimatic indices of this type is considered to be a more effective method for assessing the comfort of bioclimatic conditions for territories intended for the organization of health-improving recreation and tourism. The noted indices have a greater variability of values ​​and, therefore, a higher informational significance in comparison with other bioclimatic indicators that are simpler in calculations, such as, for example, equivalent effective temperature (EET) and biologically active temperature (BAT). Thus, the conducted review of existing methods for assessing bioclimatic indicators identified their advantages and disadvantages, which is important for the subsequent selection of the most optimal method suitable for a particular recreational area with appropriate weather and climatic conditions.

scholarly journals GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND-USE MIXTURE AND HOME– BASED TRIP MAKING AND MORE: CASE OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin-Shan MA ◽  
Xueming CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Correlation Matrices ◽  
Socioeconomic Variables ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Work Trip ◽  
The Relationship

Richmond, Virginia has implemented numerous mixed land-use policies to encourage non-private-vehicle commuting for decades based on the best practices of other cities and the assumption that land-use mixture would positively lead to trip reduction. This paper uses both Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical tools to empirically test this hypothesis. With local land use and trip making data as inputs, it first calculates two common indices of land-use mixture - entropy and dissimilarity indices, using GIS tool, supplemented by Microsoft Excel. Afterwards, it uses Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to calculate the correlation matrices among land-use mixture indices, socioeconomic variables, and home-based work/other trip rates, followed by a series of regression model runs on these variables. Through this study, it has been found that land-use mixture has some but weak effects on home-based work trip rate, and virtually no effects on home-based other trip rate. In contrast, socioeconomic variables, especially auto ownership, have larger effects on home-based trip making.

scholarly journals Biothermal conditions on Mt. Zlatibor based on thermophysiological indices

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milica Pecelj ◽  
Aleksandar Djordjevic ◽  
Milovan Pecelj ◽  
Jelena Pecelj-Purkovic ◽  
Dejan Filipovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Bioclimatic Indices ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
Human Bioclimatology ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

This paper presents part of the research in the field of human bioclimatology and refers to biothermal conditions in different geographical environments in Serbia: an urban area and a mountain of medium height. The goal of the paper was to show bioclimatic differences during the summer between the city of Belgrade (116 m a.s.l.) and the mountain resort of Zlatibor (1498 m a.s.l.). The basic principle of bioclimatic analysis is the human heat balance between man and environment. This methodological approach is a combination of physiological and meteorological parameters that result in thermophysiological bioclimatic indices: heat load (HL) in man and the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). For this analysis, weather data for July, as the warmest month, was obtained, using daily meteorological data for the decade from 2000 to 2010. Results for July indicate a considerable difference between the two abovementioned environments. HL in Belgrade was dominated by degrees of comfort ?hot? and ?extremely hot, with the highest value of 4.540, while for Zlatibor the dominant degree of comfort was ?warm?. The UTCI in Belgrade has dominated by strong heat stress and moderate heat stress, compared to Zlatibor where the UTCI is dominated by moderate heat stress. In addition, a significant part of the monitored decade on Mt. Zlatibor was without heat stress, with the exception of 2006 and 2007, indicating favorable biothermal characteristics. Therefore, compared to Belgrade, with its considerably lower overall heat stress Zlatibor has the characteristics of a site with favorable bioclimatic qualities.

scholarly journals Review of Biometeorology of Heatwaves and Warm Extremes in Europe

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1276
Author(s):  
Biljana Basarin ◽  
Tin Lukić ◽  
Andreas Matzarakis
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Heat Exposure ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Physiological Equivalent Temperature ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Thermal Climate

Numerous extreme heatwaves producing large impacts on human health, agriculture, water resources, energy demand, regional economies, and forest ecosystems occurred during the first twenty years of the 21st century. The present study strives to provide a systematic review of recent studies of warm biometeorological extremes in Europe. The main aim of this paper is to provide a methodical summary of the observed changes in warm extremes, duration, and variability in different parts of Europe. During the last decade, much attention has been paid to the negative impacts of heat and humidity on human health. Therefore, the human biometeorology is required to appraise the human thermal environment in a way that human thermoregulation is taken into account. In many European countries and regions, future heat exposure will indeed exceed critical levels, and a steep increase in biometeorological heatwaves and warm extremes are expected. The indices that take into account human energy balance along with weather conditions should be used to examine the impacts of extreme heatwaves on human health and should be used as a basis for the determination of acclimatization to high-heat-stress conditions. A detailed description of recent studies that have used biometeorological indices such as Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) for the estimation of warm extremes and their influence on human health is provided. Additionally, a short overview of the existence of the heat-health warning systems (HHWS), their conceptualization, and implementation across the European continent is considered, as well as the possibilities for further investigations and implementation of effective measures and programs that could reduce the adverse health impacts.

scholarly journals Changes Detected in Five Bioclimatic Indices in Large Romanian Cities over the Period 1961–2016

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 819
Author(s):  
Ștefana Banc ◽  
Adina-Eliza Croitoru ◽  
Nicoleta Afrodita David ◽  
Andreea-Sabina Scripcă
Keyword(s):  
Cold Stress ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Cold Season ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Trend Detection ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Cooling Power ◽  
Bioclimatic Indices ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
Big Cities

Bioclimatic indices are very important tools to evaluate the thermal stress of the human body. The aims of this study were to analyze the general bioclimatic conditions in ten big cities in Romania and to find out if there has been any change in five bioclimatic indices over a 56-year period: 1961–2016. The indices considered were: equivalent temperature, effective temperature, cooling power, universal thermal climate index and temperature-humidity index. They were calculated based on the daily meteorological data of air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed recorded in 10 weather stations in Romania: Bucharest-Băneasa, Botoșani, Cluj-Napoca, Constanța, Craiova, Galați, Iași, Oradea, Sibiu and Timișoara. The features investigated for trend detection consisted of the frequency and length of the occurrence period for each class and for each index. The test used for trend detection was Mann-Kendall and the magnitude of the trend (the slope) was calculated by employing Sen’s slope method. The main results are based on frequency analysis. Three indices showed comfort class as dominant whereas the other two indicated cold stress conditions as dominant in the area. There was a shift from the cold stress conditions to the warm and hot ones for all the indices. The most stressful conditions for hot extremes did not indicate significant change. The climate in the big cities of Romania became milder during the cold season and hotter during the warm period of the year. The analysis of the length of each thermal class indicated mainly longer occurrence periods during the year for comfortable or warm stress classes.

scholarly journals Thermal stress assessment for an Arctic city in summer

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-231
Author(s):  
P.I. Konstantinov ◽  
◽  
M.I. Varentsov ◽  
M.Y. Grishchenko ◽  
T.E. Samsonov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Thermal Stress ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Bioclimatic Comfort ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Hot Weather ◽  
Heat Perception ◽  
Pet Index ◽  
The City

Despite the fact, that against the background of global warming the Russian Arctic is still a region with severe winters and cool summers; the likelihood of thermal stress conditions in summer is also increasing. At the same time, urban conditions can significantly affect the human heat perception due to the appearance of the urban heat island effect and other factors. Using the example of the city of Nadym (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), the authors have assessed the possibility of the summer urban heat stress occurrence and analyzed its spatial heterogeneity. The article presents the detailed modeling results of the meteorological regime of the city within the framework of the COSMO-CLM model and the assessment of bioclimatic comfort using the Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) index and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). During periods of the extremely hot weather events in Nadym, the territory meso- and microclimatic mosaicism clearly manifests itself. In anthropogenically altered territories, the frequency of strong heat stress events can exceed that in the background areas by 1.7 times. Urban planning solutions should take into account not only the climatic resistance of Arctic cities to the winter cold, but also be adapted to the occurrence of summer heat.

scholarly journals The influence of atmospheric circulation on bioclimatic conditions in Lublin (Poland)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Bartoszek ◽  
Sylwester Wereski ◽  
Agnieszka Krzyżewska ◽  
Mateusz Dobek
Keyword(s):  
Cold Stress ◽  
Atmospheric Circulation ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Pressure System ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
Circulation Types ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
Bioclimatic Conditions ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis study evaluates the relationship between atmospheric circulation conditions and the frequency of heat/cold stress in Lublin in the years 1951-2010 according to the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). The paper outlines the frequency and conditional probability of heat/cold stress during particular circulation types and analyses the circulation patterns that induce these incidences. Increased wind velocity had a significant effect on creating unfavourable bioclimatic conditions in winter. Meanwhile, in summer, heat stress was observed almost exclusively when a high pressure system from eastern Europe induced a slow inflow of very warm air masses from the east or south.

scholarly journals Defining Heatwaves with Respect to Human Biometeorology. The Case of Attica Region, Greece

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1100
Author(s):  
Lida Dimitriadou ◽  
Panagiotis Nastos ◽  
Christos Zerefos
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Physiological Equivalent Temperature ◽  
Superposed Epoch Analysis ◽  
Respiratory Mortality ◽  
Thermal Climate

To date, due to climate change, heatwaves are more frequent, with greater intensity and duration resulting in deleterious impacts on human health. To be able to manage heatwaves and quantify the impacts on human health, it is crucial to define them and implement policy preventive measures. However, heatwaves are relative to the climate of a location: The same meteorological conditions can constitute a heatwave in one place but not in another. Due to different climatic conditions, social characteristics, and adaptation, heatwaves should be defined on a local scale, which poses difficulties when it comes to comparison of different definitions. The aim of the present study is to define heatwaves, implementing robust statistical analysis for three different indicators (temperature, physiological equivalent temperature (PET), and universal thermal climate index (UTCI)) for three causes of mortality (i.e., cardiological and respiratory mortality and cardiorespiratory mortality) using Attica (Greece) as a case study. Our results define a heatwave for Attica as a period of at least 3 days when the mean temperature is higher than the 97.5th percentile. Afterwards, we encapsulate the harvesting effect by implementing robust statistical analysis, using the Superposed Epoch analysis. Consequently, quantifying heatwaves is crucial so as to create early warning systems and prevent avoidable mortality.

Assessment of land-use change in coastal areas through geographical information systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Lango-Reynoso ◽  
Karla Teresa González-Figueroa ◽  
Fabiola Lango-Reynoso ◽  
María del Refugio Castañeda-Chávez ◽  
Jesús Montoya-Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Coastal Ecosystems ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Computer Based

Objective: This article describes and analyzes the main concepts of coastal ecosystems, these as a result of research concerning land-use change assessments in coastal areas. Design/Methodology/Approach: Scientific articles were searched using keywords in English and Spanish. Articles regarding land-use change assessment in coastal areas were selected, discarding those that although being on coastal zones and geographic and soil identification did not use Geographic Information System (GIS). Results: A GIS is a computer-based tool for evaluating the land-use change in coastal areas by quantifying variations. It is analyzed through GIS and its contributions; highlighting its importance and constant monitoring. Limitations of the study/Implications: This research analyzes national and international scientific information, published from 2007 to 2019, regarding the land-use change in coastal areas quantified with the digital GIS tool. Findings/Conclusions: GIS are useful tools in the identification and quantitative evaluation of changes in land-use in coastal ecosystems; which require constant evaluation due to their high dynamism.

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