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Title: Microclimatic Analysis and its Effect on Human Comfort: A Case Study of Minna, Niger State
Authors: Shemsudeen, O.
Yahaya, T. I.
Keywords: Microclimate, Human Comfort, Climatology, City Climate
Issue Date: Apr-2008
Publisher: Journal of Science, Education And Technology
Citation: 27-32
Abstract: One major pre-occupation of human climatology is to understand the effect of a given set of climatic conditions on the comfort level of individual. The modification of natural environment such as construction of buildings, roads and provision of open spaces are referred to as urban surfaces. All these coupled with human activities and industries, transportation and waste disposal have influence on the climate of the immediate environment to constitute city climate. City climate therefore provide the most extreme micro-climate modifications which man has created. Looking at the present rate of urbanization and high rate of population explosion in tropical cities/urban centers, it is pertinent to study the relationship between human health and comfort and the various microclimatic parameters to determine the level of comfort ability or otherwise of these cities. the wide range of external and internal factors influences comfort of individuals and what is comfortable at one time to an individual may not be comfortable at a later time to the same individual. the paper made an attempt to determine the range of comfort in human beings who are exposed to different environmental conditions. Data used were collected from practical exercise on field study which was stretched from 7:00am to 7:00pm. Dry and wet bulb thermometers were used to collect air temperature from six (6) selected sampling areas within the city and 90 people of different sex, age, height and weights were interviewed to know their thermal sensation during the period covered. the data were computed using Effective Temperature (ET) and Relative Strain Index (RSI). The analysis of the result and responses showed that the environment was generally comfortable in the morning and towards the evening but hot and warm and not comfortable during the afternoon- though the level of comfort ability varies from one location to the other within the study area. Also, the study reveals that microclimate parameters like humidity, wind and temperature are more important in determining the comfort level of a given environment.
URI: http://repository.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/9070
ISSN: 1596-9770
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