Climate and health in Florida: Changes in risks of annual maximum temperatures in the second half of the twentieth century

Applied Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-81

  Waylen, Peter ^a   Keellings, David ^a   Qiu, Youliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual maximum temperatures; Climate change variability; Florida; Generalized extreme value distribution; Health risk

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82255175071     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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