Advances, shortcomings, and recommendations for wind chill estimation

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 495-503

  Shitzer, Avraham ^a   Tikuisis, Peter ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold weather; Frostbite threshold; Models; Wind speed vs air temperature asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; HUMAN; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMOREGULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WIND;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE; HUMANS; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING; WIND;

EID: 84860370890     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-010-0362-9     Document Type: Article

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