15th Conf on Biometeorology and Aerobiology and the 16th International Congress of Biometeorology

Session 6B: Human Comfort Indices II: Wind Chill

Tuesday, 29 October 2002: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Organizer:  David B. Frost, Concordia University
Papers:
  3:00 PM
The basis for the new wind chill temperature chart
Maurice Bluestein, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN; and R. Osczevski

Poster PDF (132.8 kB)
  3:15 PM
Joint Development and Implementation by the United States and Canada of A New Wind Chill Temperature (WCT) Index
Cynthia Ann Nelson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Tew, G. Phetteplace, R. Schwerdt, A. Maarouf, R. Osczevski, M. Bluestein, J. Shaykewich, D. Smarsh, J. C. Derby, R. C. Petty, M. Berger, R. G. Quayle, W. R. Santee, E. O'Lenic, A. R. Lupo, and K. Browne

Poster PDF (53.5 kB)
  3:30 PM
Implementation of a Revised Wind Chill Index Program and Review of the 1st Winter in Operation in Canada
Joseph Shaykewich, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. Jeffers, A. Maarouf, H. Mackey, and P. Tourigny

Poster PDF (227.7 kB)
  3:45 PM
WIND CHILL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FROSTBITE IN THE FACE
Michel B. Ducharme, Defence Research and Development Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. Brajkovic