Cold surge: A sudden and spatially varying threat to health?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3421-3424

  Yang, Tse Chuan ^a   Wu, Pei Chih ^b   Chen, Vivian Yi Ju ^c   Su, Huey Jen ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease mortality; Cold surge; Spatial non stationarity

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITIES; CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAUX; COLD SURGE; EAST ASIA; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HUMAN HEALTHS; HUMAN REACTIONS; MORTALITY RATES; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SEVERE WEATHERS; SPATIAL NON-STATIONARITY; STUDY AREAS; WEIGHTING TECHNIQUES; WINTER MONSOONS;

DROPS; HEALTH RISKS;

THERMAL EFFECTS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH RISK; MONSOON; MORTALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLD CLIMATE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TAIWAN; WEATHER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 62749193778     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.044     Document Type: Article

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