Windchill Index and military applications

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 699-702

  Santee, William R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cold weather; Modeling; Thermal indices; Windchill

Indexed keywords

ARMY; COLD EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MILITARY MEDICINE; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOREGULATION; BODY POSTURE; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLDIER; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WIND;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WIND; HUMANS;

EID: 0035987624     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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