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Annual summaries dataset of Heatwaves in Europe, as defined by the Excess Heat Factor [PDF]

Data in Brief, 2022
The dataset includes six yearly time series of six Heatwave (HW) aspects/metrics (or statistical summaries) calculated from the E-OBS dataset (v19eHOM, available in https://www.ecad.eu/download/ensembles/downloadversion19.0eHOM.php) following the Excess ...
Ana Oliveira, António Lopes, Ezequiel Correia   +2 more
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Excess Heat Factor climatology, trends, and exposure across European Functional Urban Areas

Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022
In Europe, regional climate change prospects indicate the urgency of adapting to extreme weather events. While increasing temperature trends have already been detected, in the last decades, the adoption of a European heatwave (HW) early-warning index is ...
Ana Oliveira, António Lopes, Amílcar Soares   +2 more
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Responding to heatwave intensity: Excess Heat Factor is a superior predictor of health service utilisation and a trigger for heatwave plans [PDF]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To determine which measures of heatwave have the greatest predictive power for increases in health service utilisation in Perth, Western Australia.
Benjamin D. Scalley, Tony Spicer, Le Jian, Jianguo Xiao, John Nairn, Andrew Robertson, Tarun Weeramanthri   +6 more
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Clinical relevance of Chinese syndrome factors and thromboelastography levels in patients with phlegm-heat and fu-organ excess syndrome

Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences, 2019
Objective: Syndrome differentiation is a unique part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Syndrome factors play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of TCM syndromes.
Shuang Wu, Pei Chen, Yihuai Zou, Lan Jiang, Hualei Geng, Ruyu Yan, Shan Wang, Lingqun Zhu   +7 more
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Assessing Heat Waves over Greece Using the Excess Heat Factor (EHF)

Climate, 2019
Heat waves are considered one of the most noteworthy extreme events all over the world due to their crucial impacts on both society and the environment. For the present article, a relatively new heat wave index, which was primarily introduced for the study of extreme warming conditions over Australia (Excess Heat Factor (EHF, hereafter)), was applied ...
Konstantia Tolika
exaly   +2 more sources

Long-term trends in heatwave in the São Paulo megacity using the excess heat factor

Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais
Extreme weather events have been reported more frequently, with heatwaves being responsible for thousands of deaths around the world every year. The Excess Heat Factor (EHF) is an indicator developed to identify and classify heatwaves according to their ...
Pedro Henrique Toso Matuda, Nilton Manuel Évora do Rosário, Simone Georges El Khouri Miraglia, Daniela Debone   +3 more
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Humidity-enhanced Excess Heat Factor (EHF) analysis for heatwaves in the Pearl River Delta with CMIP6-WRF dynamical downscaling

Weather and Climate Extremes
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) in southern China is a densely populated subtropical region with hot and humid summers. Conventional heatwave definitions based solely on dry-bulb temperature often underestimate heat risk in humid climates, yet few studies ...
Ziping Zuo, Zhenning Li, Edward Y.Y. Ng, Chao Ren, Jimmy C.H. Fung   +4 more
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Escalating population and land exposure to human-perceived heatwaves in China: Insights from excess heat factor

Advances in Climate Change Research
Current assessments of human-perceived heatwaves (HPHWs) primarily incorporate the synergistic effects of temperature and humidity but largely neglect the influences of local antecedent heat conditions and human acclimatization, limiting the ...
Xi Chen, Cheng-Fang Huang, Hao Fan, Yuan Liu, Da-Bang Jiang   +4 more
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A Step to Develop Heat-Health Action Plan: Assessing Heat Waves’ Impacts on Mortality

Atmosphere, 2022
Climate change is one of the biggest health threats facing humanity and can directly affect human health through heat waves. This study aims to evaluate excess deaths during heat waves between the summer months of 2004 and 2017 in Istanbul and to ...
Hazal Cansu Çulpan, Ümit Şahin, Günay Can   +2 more
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Bidding strategies for excess heat producers participating in a local wholesale heat market

Energy Reports, 2022
The heating sector of the European Union covers 80% of the household’s final energy consumption, which shows its relevance for the energy transition to the carbon neutral society, as set out in the Green Deal.
Borna Doračić, Matija Pavičević, Tomislav Pukšec, Neven Duić   +3 more
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