Title：Climate-Comfortable Period Dataset in Mainland of China (1961-2010)
Journal/Publisher：Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery
Year：2018
Authors：Zhang, W. J. Li, S. Tan, L. Sun, M. S
Abstract
Climate-comfortable period (CCP) is a temporal index that evaluates the climate based on human thermal comfort. Climate-comfortable information is of significance for architectural designs, public health, tourism developments, and others. Based on daily meteorological data from 775 basic weather stations in mainland China from 1961 to 2010 provided by the China Meteorological Science Data Sharing Service Network, this study used the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) and Wind Effect Index (WEI) modified to fit the representative climatic comfort in mainland of China since the 1960s. The dataset included: (1) the annual average CCP in the provinces (1961-2010); (2) the annual average CCP of 341 prefecture-level cities (1961-2010); (3) the annual average CCP of 775 sites (1961-2010), and the variations between them from 1961-1985 to 1986-2010. The data were stored in Excel format with a volume of 87.5 KB after compression.
Keywords: climatic comfort, human thermal comfort, weather comfortable, wind effect index, temperature humidity index, tourism climatology
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