Wind Chill Program

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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).

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.