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Heat and Cold Extremes and Urban Mortality in Greece: An Event-Based Assessment Using Cumulative Thermal Stress Indices

Atmosphere
Extreme temperatures increasingly threaten public health, yet temperature–mortality relationships vary substantially across regions and are often obscured by average exposure–response models.
Ilias Petrou, Pavlos Kassomenos
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Retrofitting Precincts for Heatwave Resilience: Challenges and Barriers in Australian Context

Challenges, 2015
As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves are growing in Australia, strategies to combat heat are becoming more vital. Cities are exposed to urban heat islands (UHIs) due to excess urbanisation.
Gertrud Hatvani-Kovacs, John Boland
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The Cost of Heat: Health and Economic Burdens in Three Brazilian Cities

Atmosphere
Excess mortality due to heat is a major public health concern globally. In this study, we investigated the association between extreme heat and mortality in three distinct locations in São Paulo state, Brazil—São Paulo city (the capital), Campinas (a ...
Daniela Debone, Nilton Manuel Évora do Rosário, Simone Georges El Khouri Miraglia   +2 more
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Modelling of the annual mean maximum urban heat island with the application of 2 and 3D surface parameters [PDF]

, 2006
The primary aim of this study was to reveal quantitatively what effect urban structure has on the development, magnitude and spatial distribution of the annual mean maximum urban heat island using a selected representative sample area in Szeged ...
Unger, János
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Excess deaths during the August 2003 heat wave in Paris, France.: 2003 heat wave excess death risk

, 2005
BACKGROUND: During the August 2003 heat wave in France, almost 15,000 excess deaths were recorded. Paris was severely affected, with an excess death rate of 141%.
Canoui-Poitrine, Florence, Cadot, Emmanuelle, Spira, Alfred   +2 more
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Burnable poison optimized on a long-life, annular HTGR core

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2022
The present work presents analysis results of the core design optimizations for an annular, prismatic High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) with passive decay-heat removal features.
Odmaa Sambuu, Jamiyansuren Terbish
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Excess heat from energy intensive industries [PDF]

, 2022
Som en følge av gunstige markedsforhold, høy andel av fornybar energiproduksjon og politisk stabile forhold ser mange bedrifter på Norge som en attraktiv lokasjon for etablering av grønn industri.
Aalmen, Simon Holtet, Roalkvam, Marie Eide, Kjøs, Magnus   +2 more
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Excess mortality associated with extreme heat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2023

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective: To determine the excess mortality associated with the November 2023 extreme heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with temperatures reaching 42°C.
Rita Daniela Fernandez-Medina, Eduardo Mesquita Peixoto, Denis Rodrigues, Rodrigo Said, Cleonice Andrade Holanda, Cristina da Silva Freire, Aline Maria de Almeida, Silvia Cristina de Carvalho Cardoso, Mário Sergio Ribeiro, Claudia Maria Braga de Mello, Alexander Rosewell, Luciane Velasque   +11 more
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Ondas de calor. Impacto sobre a saúde.

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2005
During the summer of 2003, record high temperatures were reported across Europe, causing thousands of casualties. Heat waves are sporadic recurrent events, characterised by intense and prolonged heat, associated with excess mortality and morbidity.
Natália Marto
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Mapping Heat Vulnerability Index Based on Different Urbanization Levels in Nebraska, USA

GeoHealth, 2021
Heatwaves cause excess mortality and physiological impacts on humans throughout the world, and climate change will intensify and increase the frequency of heat events.
Babak Jalalzadeh Fard, Rezaul Mahmood, Michael Hayes, Clinton Rowe, Azar M. Abadi, Martha Shulski, Sharon Medcalf, Rachel Lookadoo, Jesse E. Bell   +8 more
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