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Rapid rises in the magnitude and risk of extreme regional heat wave events in China
Weather and Climate Extremes, 2021 Increasing occurrence of extreme heat waves poses serious risks to human society and ecosystems. Past studies generally examined the changes in heat wave characteristics at individual stations or grid points; however, a heat wave typically appears as a ...
Jun Wang, Zhongwei Yan
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Investigation of the relationship between heat waves and urban heat islands (Case study: Ahvaz metropolis) [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2022 Heat waves and urban heat islands are phenomena that affect human life. The purpose of this study is to investigation the relationship between heat waves and urban heat islands in the Ahvaz metropolis from 2003 to 2018.
Rogieh Maleki Rashti +2 more
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Urban Planning, 2023 This study aims to analyze the gap between the level of heat wave adaptation policies and heat wave effects in South Korean municipalities. First, the types of industries in municipalities were classified using factor analysis and cluster analysis ...
Tae Ho Kim +3 more
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Mapping Heat Wave Hazard in Urban Areas: A Novel Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach
Atmosphere, 2022 Global population is experiencing more frequent, longer, and more severe heat waves due to global warming and urbanization. Episodic heat waves increase mortality and morbidity rates and demands for water and energy.
Javad Shafiei Shiva +2 more
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Spatial characterization of global heat waves using satellite-based land surface temperature
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023 The warming world greatly suffers the increase of frequency, severity and duration of heat wave events, which would cause the significant societal and environmental damages and implications from local to global scales.
Yonghong Hu +6 more
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023 In this study, two types of wave-structured pipes for heat exchangers that are easy to process are proposed, and the condensation pressure drop and heat transfer performances for hydrocarbon refrigerant upward flow in wave helical pipes are investigated.
Shulei Li +4 more
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Simulating the Urban Heat Island Augmented with a Heat Wave Episode Using ICTP RegCM4.7 in a Mega-Urban Structure of Karachi, Pakistan [PDF]
Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering, 2021 The metropolis of Karachi, with a density of around 4000 persons/km2 at present, is going through unprecedented urbanization and population growth, which can augment Urban Heat Island (UHI) triggered heat wave impacts on life and living.
Burhan Ahmad +4 more
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The characteristic of heat wave effects on coronary heart disease mortality in Beijing, China: a time series study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence for the impacts of heat waves on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in Beijing, capital city of China. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to find a best heat wave definition for CHD mortality; and explore the characteristic of
Zhaoxing Tian +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 Heat waves (HWs) with high humidity are dangerous to human health. However, existing studies on different types of HWs considering the effect of humidity are still limited.
Xi Chen
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Among numerous electronic cooling methods, a vibrating heat sink using sinusoidal wave vibration effectively enhances the heat transfer by disturbing the thermal boundary layer.
Ambagaha Hewage Dona Kalpani Rasangika +3 more
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