Session 5B |
| | Human Comfort Indices I: Heat and Universal Indices |
| | Organizer: Karen Smoyer Tomic, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 1:00 PM | 5B.1 | The Development Of A Synoptic-Based Heat-Health Alert System For Toronto 
Wesley P. Kent, Kent State University, Kent, OH; and S. C. Sheridan and L. S. Kalkstein |
| 1:15 PM | 5B.2 | The development of a warm weather relative comfort index for environmental analysis
Jill D. Watts, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and L. S. Kalkstein |
| 1:30 PM | 5B.3 | Evaluation of the climate change impact on the human thermal stress for Uzbekistan
Victor Chub, Central Asian Hydrometeorological Research Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and S. Nikulina |
| 1:45 PM | 5B.4 | An update on the development of a Universal Thermal Climate Index
Gerd Jendritzky, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Freiburg, Germany; and A. Maarouf, D. Fiala, and H. Staiger |
| 2:00 PM | 5B.5 | Subjective Temperature Index - the new thermal climate index
Krzysztof Blazejczyk, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Warszawa, Poland |
| 2:15 PM | 5B.6 | Human biometeorological dimensions of residential energy consumption
Melissa Anne Hart, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and R. J. de Dear |