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Continuous Observation of Globe Temperature and Simultaneous Observation by WBGT101
Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Murayama, H. Maruyama, and H. Suzuki
Heat Stroke caused by hot and humid condition comes to an issue in Japan. WBGT(Wet-bulb Globe Temperature: Yaglou and Minard, 1957) is a standard index to set down the rule for workers or athletes, but it's difficult and annoying to measure WBGT continuously. In order to calculate WBGT, we have to observe dry-bulb temperature, humidity and globe temperature simultaneously. From June to September in 2005 summer we construct a continuous observation system for globe bulb temperature and observe one minute interval data. The maximum temperature was 58.4 degree Celsius and the difference between a dry-bulb temperature and a globe temperature was exceeded to 23.1 degree Celsius. And for an observation network in near future, we tried simultaneous observation in 8 cities by WBGT-101 (Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing Co. Ltd.) with medical researchers, and we could get simultaneously WBGT data covered Japan.
Joint Poster Session 2, Urban Environment Posters II (Joint With 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing Our Physical and Natural Resources)
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 2:30 PM-2:30 PM, Exhibit Hall A2
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