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utci

Universal Thermal Climate Index

Description

The Universal Thermal Climate is defined as the air temperature of the reference condition causing the same model response as actual conditions. The deviation of UTCI from air temperature, depends on the values of air and mean radiant temperature), wind speed and humidity.

Usage

utci(
  taverage,
  rh,
  w,
  tmrt,
  data_names = NULL,
  time.scale = YEAR,
  na.rm = FALSE
)

Arguments

`taverage`	daily mean temperature, Celsius
`rh`	relative humidity, percentage
`w`	average wind, m/s
`tmrt`	radiation temperature, Celsius
`data_names`	names of each period of time
`time.scale`	month, season or year
`na.rm`	logical. Should missing values (including NaN) be removed?

Value

index value

References

Blazejczyk, K.; Jendritzky, G.; Bröde, P.; Fiala, D.; Havenith, G.; Epstein, Y., Psikuta, A.; Kampmann, B. 2013. An introduction to the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). Geographia Polonica, 86 (1), pp.5-10. http://www.utci.org/

Examples

data(data_all)
utci(ta = data_all$tg, rh = data_all$humidity, w = data_all$wind, 
     tmrt = data_all$radiationtemperature)

ClimInd

Climate Indices

v0.1-3

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Fergus Reig-Gracia [aut, cre], Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano [aut], Fernando Dominguez-Castro [aut], Joaquin Bedia-Jiménez [ctb]

Initial release

2021-04-09