Wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT)--its history and its limitations.

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  2008

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  Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.JSAMS.2007.07.003PMID 17765661
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