Bibliography

For the Football Heat Stress Guidelines:

Coyle, JF: Football uniforms and uncompensable heat stress, expressed as wet bulb globe temperature. Med Sci Sports Exerc 35:S56, 2003

 Kulka TJ, Kenney WL: Heat balance limits in football uniforms. The Physician and Sports Medicine 30:29-39, 2003.

 For the Fairfax County, Virginia, school district football guidelines for heat  stress:Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools Weather Guidelines, 2003.

 Fox EL, Mathews DK, et al: Effects of football equipment on thermal balance and energy cost during exercise. Res Q. 37:332-9, 1966.

 Mathews  DK, Fox EL, Tanzi D: Physiological responses during exercise and recovery in a football uniform. J Appl Physiol 26: 611-615, 1969.

 Mueller  F: Review of environmental heat stress rules for football. Press release, ACSM Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, May 2003. (WB>75 "Danger Level and Extreme Caution.")
 

For review of the subject of thermoregulation during sports:

Coyle JF. "Chapter 8: Thermoregulation." In Care of the Young Athlete, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics. Chicago, 2000.
 

For conversion of Airport Heat Index to Playing Field WBGT:

Coyle JF. Conversion of US airport heat index to playing field estimated wet bulb globe temperature for hot days. Med Sci Sports Exerc 33:S84, 2001.
 

For the origin and significance of the US NWS Heat Index:

Rothfusz LP. The heat index "equation" (or, more than you ever wanted to know about heat index). Technical attachment, NWS Southern Region Headquarters, Fort Worth, Texas. SR 90-23. 7/1/90.

Anonymous. US Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Heat wave: a major summer killer. NOAA/PA 85001 (Pamphlet)

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