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- From: kk881595@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (kevin knappmiller)
- Subject: Re: question about 'apparent' temperature
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:48:24 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec3.024748.10156@leland.Stanford.EDU> <4i#@byu.edu> <1992Dec3.163400.5519@u.washington.edu> <535@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In article <535@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, tmkst6+@pitt.edu (Theodore M Kostek) writes:
- |> All this talk about the ice cubes and classrooms has me wondering about
- |> a related problem. I'm only a 1st term junior, and haven't had
- |> any heat transfer classes, so I'm not sure if I have this right.
- |> My question concerns wind chill and relative humidity as they relate
- |> to the apparent temperature. When the weather report gives the temp with
- |> wind chill factor (ex 40, 20 with wind chill), are they saying that the heat
- |> transfer rate from your body is the same as if the air was 20 degrees but
- |> still?
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- Essentially.
-
- |> Similarly when it very humid, say 70 degrees but feels like 80, does
- |> this mean that the heat transfer rate is the same as if it were a lower
- |> humidty at 80 degrees?
- |>
- In this range one is more concerned with "comfort" than heat
- transfer. The criteria here are much more empirical than
- wind chill. The effect of humidity is much harder to quantify.
- If you are interested look in chapter 31 of the ASHRAE handbook
- of fundamentals.
-
- Kevin Knappmiller
- Solar Lab
- Colorado State University
- Fort Collins, CO 80523
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- kk881595@longs.lance.colostate.edu
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