2008/07/30 by J. C. Liljegren, R.A. Carhart, Philip Lawday +2 · 1 voice · 16 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Thermal Regulation in Medicine #Thermoregulation and physiological responses
paper · doi:10.1080/15459620802310770
openalex publication_date 2008/07/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
The U.S. Army has a need for continuous, accurate estimates of the wet bulb globe temperature to protect soldiers and civilian workers from heat-related injuries, including those involved in the storage and destruction of aging chemical munitions at depots across the United States. At these depots, workers must don protective clothing that increases their risk of heat-related injury. Because of the difficulty in making continuous, accurate measurements of wet bulb globe temperature outdoors, the authors have developed a model of the wet bulb globe temperature that relies only on standard meteorological data available at each storage depot for input. The model is composed of separate submodels of the natural wet bulb and globe temperatures that are based on fundamental principles of heat and mass transfer, has no site-dependent parameters, and achieves an accuracy of better than 1 degree C based on comparisons with wet bulb globe temperature measurements at all depots.