Impact of heat waves on mortality in Croatia

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1135-1145

  Zaninović, Ksenija ^a   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mortality; Physiologically equivalent temperature; Thermal load; Thermo physiological stress; Threshold temperature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CITY; CROATIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; MORTALITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CITIES; CROATIA; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84904246137     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-013-0706-3     Document Type: Article

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