pythermalcomfort: A Python package for thermal comfort research

@article{Tartarini2020pythermalcomfortAP,
  title={pythermalcomfort: A Python package for thermal comfort research},
  author={Federico Tartarini and S. Schiavon},
  journal={SoftwareX},
  year={2020},
  volume={12},
  pages={100578}
}
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