Toward a quantitative estimate of future heat wave mortality under global climate change

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 701-706

  Peng, Roger D ^a   Bobb, Jennifer F ^a   Tebaldi, Claudia ^b,c   McDaniel, Larry ^d   Bell, Michelle L ^e   Dominici, Francesca ^f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Climate Central   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d National Center for Atmospheric Research   (Canada)

^e Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Extreme weather events; Global warming; Population health; Time series models

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT WAVE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955819958     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002430     Document Type: Article

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