Slot: Indoor or Outdoor Regime (indoor_outdoor)

Indoor / outdoor regime. Mandatory for WBGT (the indoor vs outdoor distinction changes the equation and the health interpretation).

Tier: conditionally_core

Why this slot matters

Indoor and outdoor WBGT use different equations and carry different health interpretations; an indoor formula applied to outdoor conditions (or a regime left unstated) makes the value invalid or uninterpretable for the exposure being claimed.

In plain terms

Heat stress works differently inside and outside — indoors there is no direct sun and little wind — so heat metrics come in indoor and outdoor versions, and you need to know which one you are looking at.

URI: envar:slot/indoor_outdoor

Applicable Classes

Name	Description	Modifies Slot
DerivedHeatMetric	Methodology slots specific to derived heat metrics (WBGT, Heat Index, UTCI, a...	yes

Properties

Type and Range

Property	Value
Range	IndoorOutdoorEnum
Domain Of	DerivedHeatMetric

Cardinality and Requirements

Property	Value

Examples

Value
outdoor

See Also

• https://www.iso.org/standard/67188.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_globe_temperature

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property	value
tier	conditionally_core
justification	Indoor and outdoor WBGT use different equations and carry different health interpretations; an indoor formula applied to outdoor conditions (or a regime left unstated) makes the value invalid or uninterpretable for the exposure being claimed.
explanation	Heat stress works differently inside and outside — indoors there is no direct sun and little wind — so heat metrics come in indoor and outdoor versions, and you need to know which one you are looking at.

Schema Source

• from schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/microschemas/envar

Mappings

Mapping Type	Mapped Value
self	envar:indoor_outdoor
native	envar:indoor_outdoor

LinkML Source

name: indoor_outdoor
annotations:
  tier:
    tag: tier
    value: conditionally_core
  justification:
    tag: justification
    value: Indoor and outdoor WBGT use different equations and carry different health
      interpretations; an indoor formula applied to outdoor conditions (or a regime
      left unstated) makes the value invalid or uninterpretable for the exposure being
      claimed.
  explanation:
    tag: explanation
    value: Heat stress works differently inside and outside — indoors there is no
      direct sun and little wind — so heat metrics come in indoor and outdoor versions,
      and you need to know which one you are looking at.
description: Indoor / outdoor regime. Mandatory for WBGT (the indoor vs outdoor distinction
  changes the equation and the health interpretation).
title: Indoor or Outdoor Regime
examples:
- value: outdoor
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/microschemas/envar
see_also:
- https://www.iso.org/standard/67188.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_globe_temperature
rank: 1000
domain_of:
- DerivedHeatMetric
range: IndoorOutdoorEnum