Wind Chill Program

Partners

The new wind chill program could not have come to life without the participation of several partner organizations, to which we express our gratitude.

• Defence R&D; Canada - Toronto (DRDC Toronto), formerly the Defence and Civil Insititue of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM) - which is part of Defence R&D Canada, Department of National Defence - where the human trials were conducted.
  
  
• The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research of the United States.
  
  
• The National Oceangraphic and Atmospheric Administration / National Weather Service, part of the Department of Commerce of the United States.
  
  
• The following agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD) of the United States:
  
  
  • US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
    
    
  • US Army Corps of Engineers / Engineering Research and Development Center/ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
    
    
  • US Air Force
    
    
• Purdue University (Indiana, United States).
  
  

Acknowledgements

We wish to recognize the following individuals who, from their own effort, contributed material to this Web site:

• Bruno Larochelle, who developed the Chilldex downloadable wind chill calculator.
  
  
• Michael Schaffer, who generated the wind chill graph.

Michael and Bruno are employees of Environment Canada's Weather Centre located in Edmonton, Alberta.

Links

• Wind chill page by Environment Canada's Prairie and Northern Region
  
  
• United States' wind chill page
  
  
• Science and Environment Bulletin (Environment Canada): The New Formula for Cold
  
  
• EnviroZine (Environment Canada): Canada's New Wind Chill Index
  
  
• Defence R&D Canada Backgrounder: The New Formula for Cold

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