Table 1.
Air temperature design ranges (ΔT) of thermal indices meeting criteria C1 to C7. Ranges of wind speed in persons height (v) or 10 m (v10), relative humidity (RH), and mean radiant temperature (Tmrt) are indicated as far as documented in the original publications. Air temperature ranges have been taken from de Freitas and Grigorieva (2016)
| ΔT range [°C] | Index | Other ranges | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| − 25 ≤ T ≤ 35 | Heat budget index (HEBIDEX) Skin temperature energy balance index (STEBIDEX) |
de Freitas (1985); de Freitas (1986); de Freitas and Symon (1987) | |
| − 40 ≤ T ≤ 40 | Physiological strain (PhS), Subjective temperature index (STI) |
Blazejczyk (2005b) | |
| Predicted mean vote—outdoors (PMVo) | Jendritzky and Nübler (1981) | ||
| Physiological subjective temperature (PST) | v ≤ 22 ms−1 | Blazejczyk et al. (2012); Blazejczyk and Matzarakis (2007) | |
| − 40 ≤ T ≤ 50 | Perceived temperature (PTJ) | Jendritzky et al. (1979); Staiger et al. (2012) | |
| − 50 ≤ T ≤ 50 | Physiological equivalent temperature (PET) | Höppe (1999); (Mayer and Höppe 1987) | |
| Universal thermal climate index (regression, look-up table version; UTCIapp) | 0.5 ≤ v10 ≤ 30.3 ms−1, 5 ≤ RH ≤ 100%, − 30 ≤ Tmrt – T ≤ 70 °C |
Bröde et al. (2012); Jendritzky et al. (2012) | |
| − 90 ≤ T ≤ 37 | Thermal balance (balance version, see Appendix A in ESM 1; ThBalb) | Rusanov (1981) | |
| − 90 ≤ T ≤ 60 | Outdoor thermal environment index (OTEI, ETVO) | Nagano and Horikoshi (2011) | |
| Universal thermal climate index (UTCI) | Bröde et al. (2012); Jendritzky et al. (2012) | ||
| Standard effective temperature outdoors (OUT_SET*) | Pickup and de Dear (2000) |