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Humidity Matters: Understanding Wet Bulb Temperature
Humidity significantly impacts physiological processes, as highlighted by the relationship between evaporative cooling and moisture in the air. Physiologists utilize fundamental biophysics to understand this effect, unlike epidemiologists who analyze historical events. The wet bulb temperature, which combines heat and humidity into a single metric, serves as an essential measure for assessing comfort and risks associated with weather conditions, functioning similarly to the heat index but calculated through different methods.
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