Using evaporative cooling to reduce the frequency and duration of elevated temperature-humidity indices in Oklahoma

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-99

  Huhnke, Raymond L ^a   McCowan, LaDonna C ^a   Meraz, Gerald M ^a   Harp, Sam L ^a   Payton, Mark E ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling; Heat stress; Temperature humidity index

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HEAT STRESS; LIVESTOCK; POISSON LOGLINEAR REGRESSION MODEL; TEMPERATURE HUMIDITY INDEX;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842482428     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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