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Adaptation to outdoor thermal environment of tourists and local people in winter in Harbin

  • Tianyu Xi*
  • , Qiaochu Wang
  • , Shu Wang
  • , Xiaowei Lv
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin institute of technology

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Abstract

Outdoor thermal comfort is known to be influenced by adaptations, which leads to different outdoor thermal environment preferences due to climate change by locations. This paper compared the reactions to outdoor thermal environment between local people and tourist in winter in Harbin, which locates in typical severely cold climate zone in China. It was found that, in winter, compared with local people, the thermal comfort vote (TCV) of tourist is more sensitive to thermal sensation vote (TSV), and the satisfaction vote (TSaV) of local people is more sensitive to thermal comfort vote (TCV), which means that, for tourists in Harbin in winter, the change of thermal sensation will strongly influence people's thermal comfort, but the satisfaction vote to the environment will stay in a high level range, and the local people react against that. For the local people, the satisfaction vote (TSaV) and thermal sensation vote (TSV) shows a liner positive relationship, and for the tourists, the satisfaction vote (TSaV) and thermal sensation vote (TSV) shows a quadric relationship, and when TSV equals to -2 (cool), the TSaV of tourists get a peak value, which should be due to people's travel expectations to Harbin climate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTechnologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability, TMREES 2019
EditorsChafic-Touma Salame, Auday Hattem Shaban, Panagiotis Papageorgas, Michel Aillerie
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735418639
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability 2019, TMREES 2019 - Beirut, Lebanon
Duration: 10 Apr 201912 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2123
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability 2019, TMREES 2019
Country/TerritoryLebanon
CityBeirut
Period10/04/1912/04/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

  • Outdoor thermal comfort
  • Severely cold region
  • Thermal comfort adaptation
  • Tourist

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