Global risk of deadly heat

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 501-506

  Mora, Camilo ^a   Dousset, Bénédicte ^b   Caldwell, Iain R ^a   Powell, Farrah E ^a   Geronimo, Rollan C ^a   Bielecki, Coral R ^a   Counsell, Chelsie W W ^a   Dietrich, Bonnie S ^a   Johnston, Emily T ^a   Louis, Leo V ^a   Lucas, Matthew P ^a   Mckenzie, Marie M ^a   Shea, Alessandra G ^a   Tseng, Han ^a   Giambelluca, Thomas W ^a   Leon, Lisa R ^c   Hawkins, Ed ^d   Trauernicht, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MORTALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85021696153     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3322     Document Type: Article

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