2007, Piran, Slovenia

Environmental Ergonomics XII
Igor B. Mekjavic, Stelios N. Kounalakis & Nigel A.S. Taylor (Eds.), © BIOMED, Ljubljana 2007
RESULTS
Different seasonal trends of minimum clothing insulation to maintain thermal neutrality in
outdoor spaces were observed in different Italian geographical areas (Table 2). The northern
Italian city showed only negative trends (decreasing of min_clo). These trends were
significant during most of day in winter and summer and during the morning and afternoon in
spring. No significant trends were observed in autumn (Table 2). A completely different
situation was observed for the central Italian city. In this case most of trends were positive,
that means an increase of min_clo. These trends were always significant during the morning
in all seasons (Table 2). During summer an opposite significant trend in another moment of
the day was observed, with significant negative trend in the evening (Table 2).
Table 2: Correlation coefficients of seasonal trends of the minimum clothing insulation to maintain
the thermal neutrality in outdoor spaces assessed over the second half of the last century in the three
Italian cities. Legend: * Statistically significant P