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Variation and trends of thermal comfort at the Adriatic coast

Knowledge about the thermal comfort of humans plays an important role in health and activities, especially in tourism, recreation, leisure and sport. In spite of the efforts that have been made to investigate temperature changes during the last century, results cannot completely clarify their impacts on humans. This paper analysed variations and trends of the Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV), two thermal bioclimate indices based on human energy balance models. Climatic changes were analysed using data from the period of 1867-2000, taken from the meteorological station at Hvar, Croatia, a popular tourist destination island in the Adriatic Sea. This analysis of thermal bioclimate conditions has showd that changes in the examined period were within the range of one class of physiological strain for humans.

Thermal bioclimate; Binomial moving average filter; Trend analysis; Progressive analysis

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