Projecting future temperature-related mortality in three largest Australian cities

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 208, Issue , 2016, Pages 66-73

  Guo, Yuming ^a   Li, Shanshan ^a   Liu, De Li ^b   Chen, Dong ^c   Williams, Gail ^a   Tong, Shilu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mortality; Projection; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; EMISSION SCENARIO; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL PROJECTIONS; HEAT RELATED MORTALITY; MORTALITY; PROJECTION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE CHANGE; MORTALITY; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN SOCIETY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COLD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT; MORTALITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; URBAN AREA; WINTER; BODY TEMPERATURE; CITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; MELBOURNE; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUEENSLAND; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES]; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CITIES; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FORECASTING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS;

EID: 84959125791     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.09.041     Document Type: Article

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