Attributing human mortality during extreme heat waves to anthropogenic climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Mitchell, Daniel ^a   Heaviside, Clare ^b   Vardoulakis, Sotiris ^b   Huntingford, Chris ^c   Masato, Giacomo ^d   P Guillod, Benoit ^a   Frumhoff, Peter ^e   Bowery, Andy ^a   Wallom, David ^a   Allen, Myles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

Author keywords

2003 heat wave; attribution; extreme climate; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ATTRIBUTION; EXTREME CLIMATES; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAT WAVES; MORTALITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAT WAVE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENGLAND; FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; PARIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 84980010347     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074006     Document Type: Article

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