Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities
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DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01209-5
Abstract: Heat extremes (ie, heatwaves) already have a serious impact on human health, with ageing, poverty, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community seeks to contend with even hotter weather in the future… read more here.
Keywords: reducing health; health; heat; health effects ... See more keywords
Amplification of heat extremes by plant CO2 physiological forcing
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03472-w
Abstract: Plants influence extreme heat events by regulating land-atmosphere water and energy exchanges. The contribution of plants to changes in future heat extremes will depend on the responses of vegetation growth and physiology to the direct… read more here.
Keywords: co2 physiological; physiological forcing; co2; vegetation ... See more keywords
Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions
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DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0637-z
Abstract: In an interconnected world, simultaneous extreme weather events in distant regions could potentially impose high-end risks for societies 1 , 2 . In the mid-latitudes, circumglobal Rossby waves are associated with a strongly meandering jet… read more here.
Keywords: risk; amplified rossby; simultaneous heat; heat extremes ... See more keywords
Effect of irrigation on humid heat extremes
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ecf
Abstract: Most studies of irrigation as an anthropogenic climate forcing focus on its cooling effects. However, irrigation also increases humidity, and so may not ameliorate humid heat and its extremes. We analyzed global climate model results… read more here.
Keywords: humid heat; irrigation humid; heat extremes; irrigation ... See more keywords
Spatial Characteristics of Heat Extremes in South Korea from the Climatological Mean Perspective
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DOI: 10.3390/atmos11030250
Abstract: We investigated the spatial characteristics of heat extremes in South Korea from the climatological mean perspective. A heat extreme was defined as a day when the daily maximum temperature was higher than 33 °C. According… read more here.
Keywords: extremes south; spatial characteristics; south korea; heat extremes ... See more keywords
Heat Extremes, Public Health Impacts, and Adaptation Policy in Germany
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17217862
Abstract: Global warming with increasing weather extremes, like heat events, is enhancing impacts to public health. This essay focuses on unusual extreme summer heat extremes occurring in Germany at higher frequency, longer duration, and with new… read more here.
Keywords: germany; public health; heat extremes; adaptation ... See more keywords