2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of new assessment tool for urban thermal comfort
| Project/Area Number |
26889057
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Hydraulic engineering
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Science |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 熱中症 / 装着型測定器 / 深部体温 / ヒートアイランド / ラグランジュ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Severe thermal condition in Asian mega-cities increases heat stroke risk and deteriorates citizen's quality of life. Despite of the importance of understanding the detailed urban thermal portraits, the conventional measurement method, or fixed-point meteorological observation, is weak to obtain the spatially rich information due to the limiting measurement points.
We proposed a new research framework for the urban thermal comfort, where collecting the big data on citizens’perceptions for the micro climate and analyzing them statistically to obtain spatially-rich information on
urban thermal environment. We developed a smartphone application for easy-collecting such data. We also developed a wearable measurement instrument for recording meteorological and sensor-carrier's physiological data along human pathway. A study for outdoor thermal comfort using the wearable instrument and smartphone app demonstrated an advantage of this tool for obtaining urban thermal portrait.
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| Free Research Field |
都市気象
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