effect of urbanization and industrialization processes on outdoor thermal human comfort in egypt城市化和工业化进程对室外热舒适性在埃及.pdfVIP

Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2011, 1, 100-112 doi:10.4236/acs.2011.13012 Published Online July 2011 (/journal/acs) Effect of Urbanization and Industrialization Processes on Outdoor Thermal Human Comfort in Egypt S. M. Robaa Astronomy and Meteorology Department , Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt E-mail : d_robaa@ Received April 17, 2011; revised May 24, 2011; accepted June 7, 2011 Abstract Detailed studies on the effect of urbanization and industrialization processes on outdoor thermal human com- fort in Greater Cairo region, Egypt have been performed in this study. Four different districts in Greater Cairo region have been selected to represent rural, suburban, typical urban and industrial areas. The data of surface dry, wet bulb temperatures and wind speed for two different periods represent non-urbanized and urbanized periods have been used. Discomfort indices for the two periods have been calculated for the four districts. The study revealed that urbanization and industrialization processes have resulted in the distinctly modification of human comfortable at all districts. The feeling of quite comfortable reduced from the old non-urbanized period to the recent urbanized period at the four districts. During the recent urbanized period, the rural area has the highest total number of quite comfortable hours while both urban and industrial areas have the lowest total number of hours. The serious hot uncomfortable didn’t occur at all districts during the old non-urbanized period while during the recent urbanized period, all people had felt extreme serious hot uncomfortable only at urban and industrial areas. It could be concluded that the urbanization and industriali- zation processes