Abstract
The outdoor thermal environment might become worse than at present. It causes health injuries through the deterioration of the outdoor thermal condition. It is necessary to study how humans stay outdoors and adjust to thermal conditions. The purpose of this study was to clarify the influence of the outdoor tropical urban thermal environment on a subject who has been acclimatized to the environment studied using the outdoor thermal environment evaluation index ETFe. In addition, the tendency of human impacts was clarified through comparison to subjects from a temperate thermal environment region. As a result, it was found that an ETFe of up to 35°C could be recognized as a temperate thermal environment. However, when the ETFe was greater than 40°C, the subject could not tolerate the environment. There was not a significant difference of psychological reaction between Thai people, who were acclimatized to the tropical climate, and Japanese people, who were acclimatized to the temperate climate.
Highlights
In the fifth IPCC report, the IPCC Working Group I Contribution to AR5 [1] mentioned that the agreed size ofHow to cite this paper: Kurazumi, Y., Ishii, J., Fukagawa, K., Kondo, E. and Aruninta, A. (2016) Ethnic Differences in Thermal Responses between Thai and Japanese Females in Tropical Urban Climate
At observation points 0, 1, 2, and 4, the result of testing the homogeneity of the responses of the thermal sensation between Thai females who are thermally adapted to tropical regions and Japanese females who are thermally adapted to temperate regions were p > 0.10 (χ2 = 2.373, p = 0.668), (χ2 = 2.838, p = 0.585), (χ2 = 1.077, p = 0.783), (χ2 = 2.795, p = 0.593), respectively, showing no significant difference
It on the whole was evident that there is no great difference in the psychological response of the thermal sensation between Thai females who are thermally adapted to tropical regions and Japanese females who are thermally adapted to temperate regions
Summary
In the fifth IPCC report, the IPCC Working Group I Contribution to AR5 [1] mentioned that the agreed size ofHow to cite this paper: Kurazumi, Y., Ishii, J., Fukagawa, K., Kondo, E. and Aruninta, A. (2016) Ethnic Differences in Thermal Responses between Thai and Japanese Females in Tropical Urban Climate. (2016) Ethnic Differences in Thermal Responses between Thai and Japanese Females in Tropical Urban Climate. American Journal of Climate Change, 5, 52-68. The goal of the international agreement to avoid the severe effects of climate change is to limit the temperature rise to a maximum of 2 ̊C compared to the temperature before the Industrial Revolution. Under the present conditions, the temperature increase is likely to be about 3 ̊C. The average temperature increase will be between 3.7 ̊C and 4.8 ̊C and will cause a negative outdoor thermal environment. The moderate climate area changes to tropical one and ways to stay in outdoor spaces might need to be reconsidered
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