HeatStress: HeatStress

In anacv/HeatStress: Calculate heat stress indices

HeatStress

Description

Calculate heat stress indices

Details

The package HeatStress provides methods to calculate heat stress indices.

The following calculation methods are implemented:

• wbt.Stull: Calculation of the Wet Bulb Temperature (Stull 2011).

• wbgt.Bernard: Calculation of the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature in the shade (Bernard et al. 1999)

• wbgt.Liljegren: Calculation of the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature in the sun (Liljegren et al. 2008)

• swbgt: Calculation of the simplified wet bulb globe temperature (Buzan et al. 2015 and references therein).

• apparentTemp: Calculation of the apparent temperature (Buzan et al. 2015 and references therein).

• effectiveTemp: Calculation of the effective temperature (Coccolo et al. 2016 and references therein).

• humidex: Calculation of the humidex (Buzan et al. 2015 and references therein).

• discomInd: Calculation of the discomfort index (Coccolo et al. 2016 and references therein).

• hi: Calculation of the heat index (Buzan et al. 2015 and references therein).

Check the details of the indices and input variables:

library(HeatStress)

indexShow()

anacv/HeatStress documentation built on Aug. 9, 2022, 2:36 p.m.