Field Observation and Analysis for Estimating Thermal Load on a Human Body

Abstract

In the outdoor thermal environment, thermal sensations of human are affected by many meteorological conditions. In this study, an attempt is made to provide a tool for systematically analyzing variations of outdoor human energy budget and thermal load as one kind of objective comfort indexes. One example of analysis is presented here and following results are obtained;(1) The long wave radiation from the ground surface makes much effect to the radiative flux to a human body, and (2) A simple method of estimating the thermal load on a human body using the glove temperature is shown to be useful as for the 15 min averaged value.