CLINICAL TRIALS FOR A NEW CANADIAN WIND CHILL PROGRAM

摘要

A new way to calculate and communicate wind chill was implemented in October 2001 in Canada, following standardization of the wind chill index between Canada and the United States. The Meteorological Service of Canada's (MSC) new wind chill index based on a model of facial heat loss due to the wind and cold. Crucial to the development of this new index were clinical trials, to test and validate this model. Twelve volunteers, including the first author, participated in the trials, held in May and June 2001, at the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM)―part of Defence R&D Canada, the research agency of the Canadian Department of National Defence―located in Toronto, Canada.