Joint Session 1 |
| Human Biometeorology: Thermal Comfort (Joint between the 16th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology and the Fifth Symposium on the Urban Environment) |
| Chair: Robert E. Davis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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| 8:30 AM | J1.1 | The response of the Montreal Public Health Board to climate change: preventing excess morbidity and mortality due to extreme summer temperatures in vulnerable human populations Norman King, Montreal Public Health Board, Montreal, QC, Canada; and L. Drouin |
| 8:45 AM | J1.2 | Thermal comfort conditions within an E-W Oriented street canyon in Freiburg (Germany) during the European summer heatwave 2003 Helmut Mayer, Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; and T. Holst, J. Rost, F. Imbery, and F. Ali Toudert |
| 9:00 AM | J1.3 | Study on Outdoor Thermal Environment around Cooling Towers of Large District Heating and Cooling System in Summer in Tokyo—Field measurement and coupled simulation of conveciton, radiation and conduction Hong Huang, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka and S. Kato |
| 9:15 AM | J1.4 | Thermal comfort and patterns of behaviour in outdoor urban places—examples from Göteborg, Sweden Sven Lindqvist, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden; and S. Thorsson, M. Svensson, and M. Lindqvist |
| 9:30 AM | J1.5 | A case study in resort climatology of Phoenix, Arizona, USA Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and D. A. Hartz and G. M. Heisler |