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This paper presents a thorough study on the Mean Radiant Temperature, which is considered as the most important factor for estimating outdoor thermal comfort, especially in sunny climates.

T-mrt Summarize all thermal radiations, including short and long waves radiations coming up to the human body that's why T-mrt is so complicated in time and space especially in open urban spaces. In this paper we present various methods to assess and estimate T-mrt, mathematical and digital models are discussed and in conclusion we present a new digital platform SPUCAL_mrt, which evaluate and simulate the T-mrt in open urban space in arid lands to reach the main objective "to a sustainable and comfortable built environment". (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.