Historical and projected changes in human heat stress in the Midwestern United States

Climate Change in the Midwest: Impacts, Risks, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 146-157

  Schoof, J T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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