Heat index reflects effects of temperature and humidity on human body (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Heat index reflects effects of temperature and humidity on human body

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Commercial devices like this are available to calculate the heat index, that is, how hot it actually feels given the humidity. But the algorithm used to compute the heat index breaks down under extreme conditions of temperature and humidity, underestimating the stress on the human body. 

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Yi-Chuan Lu, UC Berkeley

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