thermofeel (pronounced thermo-feel)
A library to calculate human thermal comfort indexes.
- Currently calculates the thermal indexes:
- Universal Thermal Climate Index
- Apparent Temperature
- Heat Index Adjusted
- Heat Index Simplified
- Humidex
- Normal Effective Temperature
- Wet Bulb Globe Temperature
- Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Simple
- Wind Chill
- In support of the above indexes, it also calculates:
- Globe Temperature
- Mean Radiant Temperature
- Mean Radiant Temperature from Globe Temperature
- Relative Humidity Percentage
- Saturation vapour pressure
- Wet Bulb Temperature
Install with:
$ pip install thermofeel
- thermofeel core functions depend on:
- numpy
- earthkit-meteo > 0.0.1 - for solar zenith angle calculation
- Optionally, thermofeel depends on:
- pytest - for unit testing
Thermofeel 2.0 brings a number of changes to the underlying code but most importantly to the API.
Consequently, downstream packages using thermofeel 1.* will require code changes to migrate to version 2.0 and beyond.
- The main changes are:
- standardisation of input and output variables
- standardisation of variable names
- removal of dependency on numba for code acceleration
- removal of solar zenith angle calculation (now provided by earthkit-meteo)
- several bug fixes and improvements
Please consult ChangeLog for more details.
The main repository is hosted on GitHub. Testing, bug reports and contributions are highly welcomed and appreciated.
Please see the Contributing document for the best way to help.
Current developers:
See also the contributors for a more complete list.
Copyright 2021 European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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In applying this licence, ECMWF does not waive the privileges and immunities granted to it by virtue of its status as an intergovernmental organisation nor does it submit to any jurisdiction.
In publications, please use our paper in SoftwareX as the main citation for thermofeel:
Brimicombe, C., Di Napoli, C., Quintino, T., Pappenberger, F., Cornforth, R., & Cloke, H. L. (2022). Thermofeel: A python thermal comfort indices library. SoftwareX, 18, 101005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101005
To cite thermofeel the code currently please use:
Brimicombe, C., Di Napoli, C., Quintino, T., Pappenberger, F., Cornforth, R., & Cloke, H. L. (2021). thermofeel: a python thermal comfort indices library https://doi.org/10.21957/mp6v-fd16
Past and current funding and support for thermofeel is listed in the adjoning Acknowledgements