calcTWC

calctwc

windchill

Function to calculate windchill temperature, TWC, in Degrees.

Calculation of various common and less common comfort indices such as predicted mean vote or the two node model. Converts physical variables such as relative to absolute humidity and evaluates the performance of comfort indices.

Marcel Schweiker

comf

Models and Equations for Human Comfort Research

Sophia Mueller

Michael Kleber

Boris Kingma

Masanori Shukuya

Shaomi Rahman

Shoaib Sarwar

calcTWC function

<dl><dt>v</dt>
<dd>a numeric value presenting meteorological wind speed (at 10 m) in [km/h]</dd>
<dt>ta</dt>
<dd>a numeric value presenting ambient air temperature in [degree C]</dd></dl>

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Developed by Ingvar Holmer and Hakan O. Nilsson, 1990 in java and transferred to R by Shoaib Sarwar. Further contribution by Marcel Schweiker.

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Windchill temperature (TWC) — calcTWC

<dl>

<dt>v</dt>
<dd>a numeric value presenting meteorological wind speed (at 10 m) in [km/h]</dd>


<dt>ta</dt>
<dd>a numeric value presenting ambient air temperature in [degree C]</dd>

</dl>

calcTWC: Windchill temperature (TWC)

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