An evaluation of climate/mortality relationships in large U.S. cities and the possible impacts of a climate change

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-93

  Kalkstein, Laurence S ^a   Greene, J Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Air mass; Climate and human mortality; Climate change; Human health; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; AIR; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CITY; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

EID: 0030933677     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9710584     Document Type: Article

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