The influence of afforestation on human comfort in a humid equatorial climate

In this article we analyze the influence of afforestation on human comfort for the humid equatorial climate, in which were collected data of air temperature, relative humidity, air speed and sidewalk temperature. The analysis of the observed data, show the importance of afforestation, temperature decrease, increasing the relative humidity and wind speed, and drastically reducing the pavement temperature, which together favor a better thermal comfort. To quantify thermal comfort, scenarios were simulated in Envi-met that reproduce the locations where the data was collected. The results show that Envi-met reproduces well the simulated scenarios for humid equatorial microclimate. The Predicted Mean Vote and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied indices decrease with increasing tree density. Different scenarios can be simulated with Envi-met in this type of climate, with the aim to improve people's thermal comfort.