Projection of heat wave mortality related to climate change in Korea

Natural Hazards

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 623-637

  Kim, Do Woo ^a   Deo, Ravinesh C ^b   Chung, Jea Hak ^a   Lee, Jong Seol ^a  

^a National Disaster Management Institute   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heat deaths; Heat wave trends; Heat waves projection in Korea; RCP 4.5 and 8.5

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HEAT FLUX; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

KOREA;

EID: 84952299508     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1987-0     Document Type: Article

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