Net Radiation and Heat Transfer through Clothing: The Effects of Insulation and Colour

Abstract

Measurements are reported of the influence of net radiative energy fluxes on the sensible heat flux transmitted through clothing. Measurements with heat flow discs illustrate the effects of clothing colour and reflectance on the sensible heat load. For the same incident short-wave radiant load the difference between the energy flux passing lo the skin through black and through white shirts was 190 W m^-2 when the net radiation to the black shirt was 780 Wm^-2. The results are consistent with simple linear models of heat transfer through clothing assemblies.

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K. CENA

Present address: Institute of Building Science, Technical University, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland.