The Philadelphia hot weather-health watch/warning system: Development and application, summer 1995

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1519-1528

  Kalkstein, Laurence S ^a   Jamason, Paul F ^a   Greene, J Scott ^b   Libby, Jerry ^c   Robinson, Lawrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; ANTICYCLONE; HEALTH IMPACT; HOT WEATHER; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; NATURAL HAZARD; PWWS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER WARMING SYSTEM;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA;

EID: 0030439519     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<1519:TPHWHW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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