Urban climate and bioclimate of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – preliminary results
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2012
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Meteorological Institute, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Abstract
Understanding of the urban climate of a city is important for future planning and human
wellbeing. The well known Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) and the Universal
Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) indices were calculated with RayMan model using
meteorological data (2001-2011) in order to study the human thermal bioclimate of Dar es
Salaam. Results indicate that afternoons from late September to May is the heat stressful
period. On the other hand, the June-August period is relatively a comfortable time of the
year especially the morning hours. These results are however treated as preliminary to the
detailed and reliable study that uses hourly datasets and of a long duration.
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Thermal bioclimate, Physiologically Equivalent Temperature, Universal Thermal Climate Index, Dar es Salaam, RayMan