Citation

How to cite the heatindex package

The official release of the heatindex package will coincide with the publication of Yu et al. (2025), which is currently in review. The paper provides a detailed description of heatindex package’s heatindex function.

The heatindex package, available through PyPI and CRAN, was written by Yi-Chuan Lu and David M. Romps and can be cited as follows.

Lu, Y.-C. and Romps, D. M. (2025). heatindex: Tools for Calculating Heat Stress (Package version 0.0.1). https://heatindex.org
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  title  = {heatindex: Tools for Calculating Heat Stress},
  author = {Yi-Chuan Lu and David M. Romps},
  year   = {2025},
  note   = {Package version 0.0.1},
  url    = {https://heatindex.org},
}
TY  - COMP
T1  - heatindex: Tools for Calculating Heat Stress
AU  - Lu, Yi-Chuan
AU  - Romps, David M.
PY  - 2025
UR  - https://heatindex.org
N1  - Package version 0.0.1
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The heatindex package’s heatindex function is based on the paper by Yi-Chuan Lu et al., which can be cited as follows.

Lu, Y.-C., et al. (2025). Simpler and faster: An improved heat index. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, in review.
@article{lu2025,
  author  = {Yi-Chuan Lu and others},
  title   = {Simpler and faster: An improved heat index},
  journal = {Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology},
  year    = {2025},
  note    = {In review},
}
TY  - JOUR
T1  - Simpler and faster: An improved heat index
AU  - Lu, Yi-Chuan
AU  - et al.
PY  - 2025
JO  - Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
N1  - In review
ER  -