Estimation and uncertainty analysis of impacts of future heat waves on mortality in the Eastern United States

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-16

  Wu, Jianyong ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Gao, Yang ^b,c   Fu, Joshua S ^b   Johnson, Brent A ^a   Huang, Cheng ^d   Kim, Young Min ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEATH; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891515179     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306670     Document Type: Article

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