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Table 3.

Change in 5-year maximum body temperature for a ±10% change in a given parameter used in the heat-budget model

	Change in maximum body temperature (K)
Parameter	+10%	-10%
α_sw	+1.30	-1.26
ϵ_lw,s	-0.07^*	+0.21
V_s	-0.21	+0.21
K_r	-0.62	+0.65
k	-0.32	+0.34
a(broadside)^{^†}	+0.27	-0.22

	Change in maximum body temperature (K)
Parameter	+10%	-10%
α_sw	+1.30	-1.26
ϵ_lw,s	-0.07^*	+0.21
V_s	-0.21	+0.21
K_r	-0.62	+0.65
k	-0.32	+0.34
a(broadside)^{^†}	+0.27	-0.22

a and b are the coefficients for the Nusselt—Reynolds number relationship (Eqn 27).

The standard long-wave emissivity, 0.97, is increased to the maximum possible value, 1.0, for this calculation.

As explained in the text, an increase of 10% in a is accompanied by a decrease of 4.96% in b.