ENVIRONMENTAL HEAT STRESS WEATHER NETWORK

THE PROBLEM ADDRESSED IS THE NEED TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A STANDARDIZED WET-GLOBE TEMPERATURE (WGBT) INDEX DATA ACQUISITION AND RETRIEVAL NETWORK TO SUPPORT COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTERIZED MILITARY OPERATIONS WORLDWIDE. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WORLDWIDE DATA COLLECTION NETWORK, MOST PROBABLY AS A PART OF THE EXISTING WORLD METEROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION WEATHER OBSERVING NETWORK, POSES A MYRIAD OF PROBLEMS IN DEALING WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. WE PROPOSED AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM USING EXISTING WEATHER OBSERVATIONAL DATA AND DATA NOW AVAILABLE FROM METEROLOGICAL SATELLITES.