Human-biometeorological conditions in the southern Baltic coast based on the universal thermal climate index (UTCI)

Kolendowicz, Leszek; Półrolniczak, Marek; Szyga–Pluta, Katarzyna; Bednorz, Ewa

doi:10.1007/s00704-017-2279-2

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“…The rate of the increase evidenced in this paper is even higher (in Warszawa more than 1 day per decade), but it only concerns the least strong heat stress category. Research on the variability of biothermal conditions at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea from 1981 to 2010 showed a trend of an increase in the number of days with strong heat stress by 3 to 6 days per 10 years (Półrolniczak et al 2016) and with moderate heat stress during 1981-2014 by 2 to 4 days per 10 years (Kolendowicz et al 2018) in the central part of the coast. Moreover, at the coast, a systematic increase in mean monthly UTCI values was evidenced in all summer months (Kažys and Malūnavičiūtė 2015).…”

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“…It concerned many countries, among others Germany (Matzarakis et al 2014), Greece (Nastos and Matzarakis 2012;Bleta et al 2014), Italy (Morabito et al 2014), Hungary (Nemeth 2011), Czech Republic (Urban and Kyselý 2014), and the entire Europe (di Napoli et al 2018), as well as Brazil (Bröde et al 2013), China (Ge et al 2016), Canada (Provençal et al 2016), Iran (Mohammadi et al 2018), or Tanzania (Ndetto and Matzarakis 2015). Research has also been conducted in Poland, both in a local scale (Milewski 2013;Błażejczyk et al 2016), a scale of different regions (Mąkosza 2013;Kolendowicz et al 2018), and of the entire country (Błażejczyk and Kunert 2011;).…”

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“…The effect of atmospheric circulation on biothermal conditions in Poland determined by means of the UTCI has been usually analysed in a local scale, mainly in cities with different locations. The correlations were described by means of zonal and meridional circulation indices (Nowosad et al 2013), in reference to defined types of anticyclonic, cyclonic, or indeterminate circulation (Rozbicka and Rozbicki 2017), selected circulation indices , and through the designation of types of synoptic situations based on the pressure field at sea level and geopotential height of 500 hPa (Kolendowicz et al 2018). The effect of circulation on biothermal conditions throughout Poland in summer with the application of the canonical correlation analysis was investigated by Owczarek (2018).…”

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Occurrence of strong and very strong heat stress in Poland and its circulation conditions

Tomczyk

Owczarek

2019

Theor Appl Climatol

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The primary objective of the paper was the determination of the atmospheric circulation favouring the occurrence of strong and very strong stress of the human organism due to heat stress in Poland. The paper was prepared based on data obtained from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management-National Research Institute and the National Center for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR). The criterion of extreme stress of the human organism adopted in the paper covered conditions in which the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) value was higher than 32°C. The research showed a statistically significant increase in half of the analysed stations and an increasing tendency or no changes in the remaining stations. Moreover, after 1990, conditions particularly strenuous for the organism were recorded (UTCI > 40°C) over a major part of the territory of Poland. The occurrence of days with strong and very strong heat stress in Poland was related to the presence of high-pressure systems blocking zonal circulation. The research permitted the designation of three types in which the pressure field showed common features, but differed in the location of anticyclonic systems.

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Occurrence of strong and very strong heat stress in Poland and its circulation conditions

Tomczyk

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2019

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“…According to the bioclimatic regionalization of Poland, the Baltic Sea coast is classified as a coastal region and is considered the strongest stimulus (Kozłowska-Szczęsna et al, 1997). The coastal bioclimate stands out from other climates due to the predominance of climatic stimuli associated with the greater impact of the cooling air value due to the combined effect of low temperature, higher wind speed and air humidity (Kolendowicz et al, 2018). In this region, about 40% of days a year are considered burdensome in terms of biometeorological conditions (Kozłowska-Szczęsna et al, 2002).…”

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Thermal conditions in the summer season on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea in 1966-2015

Tomczyk¹,

Kendzierski²,

Kugiejko³

et al. 2019

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The Baltic Sea coast is characterized by a large frequency of days with biometeorologically adverse effects. In many Polish and foreign studies there are issues related to the increase in the frequency of warm days, hot days, and heat waves. The present study introduces the characteristics of thermal conditions on the Polish coast in the 1966-2015 multiyear period, as well as the identification of circulation conditions favoring the occurrence of extremely warm periods. The analysis included the maximum temperature data (obtained from five measurement stations), on the basis of which the characteristics such as: average maximum air temperature, sum of maximum air temperatures occurring in summer, warm days (T max >25 °C), hot days and heat waves (T max >30 °C) were determined. The existing thermal classification proposed by Lorenc (2000) was also used in relation to the maximum daily temperature. In addition, there appeared a topic of atmospheric circulation regarding the determination of conditions for the occurrence of exceptionally warm months (mean T max >T s +1.5σ). The research results indicate an increase in the average maximum temperature (T max) in the summer season in 1966-2015. The changes are particularly visible in the western part of the research area (0.43 °C/10 years). Furthermore, the observed warming was translated into a higher occurrence of warm and hot days, which was discussed by other authors in the context of the whole of Poland. The occurrence of exceptionally warm months has reached the maximum frequency in the last 15 years, which is associated with positive anomalies of the sea level pressure and the 500 hPa isobaric surface. Periods of occurrence of the above mentioned anomalies were related to the presence of high pressure systems and the advection of air masses from the eastern sector (according to the presented T850 maps).

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“…These clustering schemes have been applied in several studies investigating the relative risk for mortality (Kassomenos et al, 2001;Kassomenos et al, 2007), the urban heat island (Mihalakakou et al, 2002) and the air pollution episodes (Petrakakis et al, 2006). On the contrary, studies investigating the human thermal stress with respect to the atmospheric circulation are relatively scarce (Bartoszek et al, 2017;Kolendowicz et al, 2017;Rozbicka and Rozbicki, 2017). For the metropolitan city of Athens, the connection between thermal discomfort and atmospheric circulation has only been studied during the warm period of the year at 12:00 UTC in terms of the Predicted Mean Vote (Bartzokas et al, 2013).…”

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Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and synoptic circulation patterns over the metropolitan city of Athens, Greece

2018

Global NEST Journal

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<p>The present study aims to investigate the human thermal stress with respect to the synoptic scale circulation over the metropolitan city of Athens in Greece. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) was applied in order to assess the levels of thermal stress employing three-hour meteorological data for four stations of the urban complex for a ten-year period (2006-2015). The patterns of the synoptic atmospheric circulation were classified in eight distinct categories based on a clustering scheme. The obtained results in summer reveal low UTCI values on days that are associated with a cyclonic pattern or a cold advection from the northwest or north. On the contrary, the days with an anticyclonic pattern show high UTCI values. During winter, low UTCI values are observed on days that are associated with a pure cyclonic pattern, a prevailing northern flow and a strong cold air advection from the northwest or north. During nighttime, high UTCI values are noted on days with south-westerly flow. However, this is not observed during daytime and especially around midday. The analysis also shows that the position of the station affects the levels of thermal stress for the same synoptic category.</p>

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Human-biometeorological conditions in the southern Baltic coast based on the universal thermal climate index (UTCI)

Cited by 36 publications

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Occurrence of strong and very strong heat stress in Poland and its circulation conditions

Occurrence of strong and very strong heat stress in Poland and its circulation conditions

Thermal conditions in the summer season on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea in 1966-2015

Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and synoptic circulation patterns over the metropolitan city of Athens, Greece

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