Impacts and responses to the 1995 heat wave: A call to action

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1497-1506

  Changnon, Stanley A ^a   Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a   Reinke, Beth C ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; HAZARD PLANNING; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAT WAVE; NATURAL HAZARD; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; WARNING SYSTEM;

USA, ILLINOIS, CHICAGO;

EID: 0030435031     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<1497:IARTTH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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