Abstract
Climate change at the regional and local levels is forcing strong implementation of urban adaptation strategies related to climate-conscious urbanization and public health. Accordingly, the application of parameters that assess thermal stress in urban areas, such as outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) indices, is of paramount importance. As a contribution to this statement, long-term (1961–2020) datasets of daily OTC indices for the city of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Hercegovina) were used. Detailed temporal analysis using Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET), Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), and Mean Radiant Temperature (Tmrt) was performed for (a) the entire research period, (b) the decadal level, and (c) defined heat/cold stress subcategories. The results show an intensive increase in extreme/strong heat days in the last 20 years, and the number of these days is five times higher than in the’70 s and’80 s. Decreasing tendencies are noticed in extreme/strong cold days towards the last two decades.
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This research was realized through the scientific research project entitled “Dynamics of Climate Change and Adaptation Possibilities in the Republic of Srpska”, and supported by the Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society in the Government of the Republic of Srpska (No: 19.0321961–74119).
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All authors (S. Savić, G. Trbić, D. Milošević, J. Dunjić, M. Ivanišević, M. Marković) contributed to the study conception, material preparation, calculations, and manuscript preparation. Study concept was performed by S. Savić, G. Trbić, and D. Milošević. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by all authors. The first draft of the manuscript was written by S. Savić, G. Trbić, J. Dunjić, and D. Milošević and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. Figure 1 was done by M. Ivanišević. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Supplementary materials were done by S. Savić.
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Savić, S., Trbić, G., Milošević, D. et al. Importance of assessing outdoor thermal comfort and its use in urban adaptation strategies: a case study of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Theor Appl Climatol 150, 1425–1441 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04237-8
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