humidex: Humidex Index for Thermal Comfort

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

View source: R/humidex.R

Description

Calculates the Thermal Comfort Index Humidex for daily or hourly data series, based on the formula purposed by Masterton and Richardson (1979).

Usage

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humidex(temp,ur)

Arguments

temp

Numerical Vector of Mean Temperature Values in celsius

ur

Numerical Vector of Relative Humidity in percentual

Value

Numerical vectors containing the Humidex Index Values

Author(s)

Francisco Jablinski Castelhano - Laboclima/Univesidade Federal do Paran<c3><a1>

References

Masterton,J.M., Richardson,F.A.,Humidex ; a method of quantifying human discomfort due to excessive heat and humidity,Environment Canada,1979

See Also

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/humidex.html

Examples

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##----Performing the Humidex calculation
humidex(temp=21.2,ur = 97)

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