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Table I

Calibration equations u = aI (ti) + b between the flow density u and the thermal index I for ti ranging from10 s to 60 s. R2 is the coefficient of determination of the regression line (17 and 13 observations respectively for heating and cooling modes).

ti(s) Heating mode Cooling mode

a b R2 a b R2
10 –200 13.8 0.93 144 –10.2 0.96
20 –435 10.6 0.90 180 –8.7 0.96
30 –725 9.4 0.89 216 –8.2 0.95
40 –1056 8.7 0.87 256 –8.2 0.94
50 –1424 8.2 0.84 277 –7.8 0.95
60 –1854 7.9 0.83 315 –7.9 0.95