Calculating human thermal comfort and thermal stress in the PALM model system 6.0

Fröhlich, Dominik; Matzarakis, Andreas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3055-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3055-2020

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The PALM model system 6.0 for atmospheric and oceanic boundary-layer...

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3055-2020

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Model description paper

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09 Jul 2020

Model description paper |

| 09 Jul 2020

Calculating human thermal comfort and thermal stress in the PALM model system 6.0

Dominik Fröhlich and Andreas Matzarakis

Data sets

Modified “test_urban” dataset for thermal comfort in PALM D. Fröhlich https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3567814

Model code and software

The PALM model system Leibniz University of Hanover https://palm.muk.uni-hannover.de/trac

Short summary

In the frame of the project "MOSAIK - Model-based city planning and application in climate change", a biometeorology module was implemented into the Parallelized Large-Eddy Simulation Model (PALM). It is comprised of methods for the estimation of three popular thermal indices for the assessment of human thermal comfort or thermal stress. Results of the new module are compared to those by the SkyHelios model as well as the version of the indices published in VDI guideline 3787, part 2.