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Rethinking local resilience for extreme heat events
Public Health, 2023 This study aims to provide insights into how local resilience structures in England can be leveraged to deliver a whole-of-society approach to managing a national response to extreme heat events during summer months.A communication based on the literature review of currently available research on health emergency response and extreme heat events in ...
Richmond, J.G., Hill, R.
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Interdecadal Variation of Summer Extreme Heat Events in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region
Atmosphere, 2023 Extreme heat events are frequent in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region due to global warming and accelerated urbanization. While previous studies have analyzed the trend of extreme heat events in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region, the ...
Yanan Liang +3 more
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Responses of tree species to heat waves and extreme heat events [PDF]
Plant, Cell & Environment, 2014 AbstractThe number and intensity of heat waves has increased, and this trend is likely to continue throughout the 21st century. Often, heat waves are accompanied by drought conditions. It is projected that the global land area experiencing heat waves will double by 2020, and quadruple by 2040.
Robert, Teskey +5 more
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Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events [PDF]
Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentExtreme heat threatens human life, evidenced by >260,000 heat-related fatalities collectively in the deadliest events since 2000. In this Review, we link physical climate science with heat mortality risk, including crossings of uncompensable thresholds (beyond which human core body temperature rises uncontrollably) and unsurvivable thresholds (lethal ...
Tom Matthews +7 more
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Spatio-Temporal Variation of Extreme Heat Events in Southeastern Europe
Atmosphere, 2022 Many studies in the last few years have been dedicated to the increasing temperatures and extreme heat in Europe since the second half of the 20th century because of their adverse effects on ecosystems resilience, human health, and quality of life.
Krastina Malcheva +2 more
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Forecasting wildlife die‐offs from extreme heat events [PDF]
Animal Conservation, 2019 AbstractExtreme heat events pose increasing challenges to biodiversity conservation worldwide, yet our ability to predict the time, place and magnitude of their impacts on wildlife is limited. Extreme heat events in Australia are known to kill thousands of flying‐foxes (Pteropus spp.), and such die‐offs are expected to become more frequent and ...
H. U. Ratnayake +4 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Background : Extreme heat is associated with increased morbidity but most studies examine this relationship in warm seasons. In Southern California, Santa Ana winds (SAWs) are associated with high temperatures during the fall, winter and spring ...
Lara Schwarz +8 more
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Bedrooms and the Vulnerability of Sleepers to Extreme Heat Events
Atmosphere, 2023 Insufficient sleep is known to have an impact on health, wellbeing, and productivity. Sleep has been explored extensively in the medical literature but has received scant attention in the built environment journals. With the climate becoming unpredictable, combined with the climate emergency and concerns over energy poverty, questions need to be asked ...
Stephen Emmitt
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Physiological acclimation and persistence of ectothermic species under extreme heat events
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019 AbstractAimTo test if physiological acclimation can buffer species against increasing extreme heat due to climate change.LocationGlobal.Time period1960 to 2015.Major taxa studiedAmphibians, arthropods, brachiopods, cnidarians, echinoderms, fishes, molluscs, reptiles.MethodsWe draw together new and existing data quantifying the warm acclimation response
Morley, S.A. +4 more
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Spatial variation in the joint effect of extreme heat events and ozone on respiratory hospitalizations in California. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance Projections show that extreme heat events and high ozone days are expected to increase under climate change. Both exposures are harmful to human health, but warning systems, typically implemented separately, do not consider the joint effects
Schwarz L +7 more
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