Spatiotemporal changes in Hourly Wet Bulb Globe temperature in Peninsular Malaysia
Date
2023
Authors
Mohamad Rajab Houmsi
Zulhilmi Ismail
llya Khairanis Othman
Daeng Siti Maimunah Ishak
Mohammed Magdy Hamed
Zafar Iqbal
Deprizon Syamsunur
Shamsuddin Shahid
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Publisher
Springer
Abstract
Global warming causes a temperature rise and alteration of other meteorological variables that directly or indirectly affect human comfort. The wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) incorporates the effects of multiple meteorological variables to provide a reliable measure of human thermal stress. Despite the large significance of WBGT on public health, studies related to characterization and trends assessment of WBGT are limited in the tropical humid region like Peninsular Malaysia due to the unavailability of all meteorological variables required for such analysis. This study employed reanalysis meteorological data of ERA5 to assess the characteristics and changes in hourly, daily, monthly, seasonal and annual outdoor WBGT over peninsular Malaysia for the period 1959–2021 using the Liljegren method.
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Keywords
Human heat stress, Hourly heat risk levels, Spatiotemporal trends, Peninsular Malaysia
Citation
Houmsi, M. R., Ismail, Z., Othman, L. K., Ishak, D. S. M., Hamed, M. M., Iqbal, Z., ... & Shahid, S. (2023). Spatiotemporal changes in hourly wet bulb globe temperature in Peninsular Malaysia. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 37(6), 2327-2347.