Characteristics of wettedness and equi-skin temperature line in the evaporative regulation region

As a result of the analysis of physiological experimental data, the characteristics of the wettedness were clarified, i.e., the value of the wettedness is not constant but differs in accordance with the environmental humidity even when the skin temperature is the same, and it was shown that the evaporative heat loss from the skin surface is inversely proportional to the wetttedness. Based on the properties of the wetedness observed, a new thermal sensation chart in the evaporative regulation region was proposed as an index for evaluating the warmth or the coldness in the environment. The feature of the present chart is that the locus of the equal skin temperature appears as a curved line on the psychrometric chart and that the wettedness on the equi-skin temperature line is not constant but takes varying values. The curved equal skin temperature line means that the influence of the environmental humidity on thermal sensation becomes smaller as the humidity of the environmental humidity on thermal sensation becomes smaller as the humidity of the environment is lowered.