The Steadman wind chill: An improvement over present scales

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1187-1193

  Quayle, Robert G ^a,c   Steadman, Robert G ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c National Climatic Data Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METABOLISM; METRIC SYSTEM; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HEAT GENERATION; WIND CHILL;

WIND;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WIND;

EID: 0032447825     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1187:TSWCAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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