The impact of climate change on heat-related mortality in six major cities, South Korea, under representative concentration pathways (RCPs)

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Kim, Young Min ^a   Kim, Soyeon ^b   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate change; Generalized linear Poisson model; Heat related mortality; Relative risk; Representative concentration pathway (RCP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975453787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00003     Document Type: Article

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