Clothing insulation in a hypobaric environment

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 827-834

  Chang, Stephen K W ^a   Santee, William R ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOLDIER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CONVECTION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0029782763     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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