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With the increase of urban population, it is vital to create thermally comfortable outdoor open spaces. To obtain data for examining the relationship between the meteorological parameters and outdoor thermal sensation, this study conducted thermal comfort tests on 30 subjects on the campus of Tianjin University. Our results indicated that in autumn and winter, outdoor solar radiation had the greatest influence on thermal sensation, followed by air temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity. Under different combination of meteorological conditions, radiation, temperature and wind speed had different effects on thermal sensation: (1) When the radiation value was low (mean radiant flux <450 W/m2), the air temperature change from 14 to 22 °C did not affect the thermal sensation. (2) When the radiation value was high, in the high-temperature range (28–30 °C), the increase of the radiation value significantly increased the thermal sensation; (3) The cooling effect of wind speed on thermal sensation was large under high and low solar radiation. The acquired data in this study could help the design and construction of thermally comfortable urban open spaces.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51708400). All procedures in this study are in full compliance with our school’s ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects prior to simultaneous experimentation.
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Liu, K., Gan, T., Liu, W., Lai, D., Liu, G. (2020). Influences of Different Meteorological Parameters on Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Cold Climate Regions in China. In: Wang, Z., Zhu, Y., Wang, F., Wang, P., Shen, C., Liu, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019). ISHVAC 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9520-8_75
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