Unusually cold and dry winters increase mortality in Australia

Environmental Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-7

  Huang, Cunrui ^a,b   Chu, Cordia ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^c   Barnett, Adrian G ^d  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Humidity; Mortality; Season; Temperature

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WINTER;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; DEATH; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WINTER; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; SEASONS;

EID: 84911106400     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.08.046     Document Type: Article

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