Projected temperature-related deaths in ten large U.S. metropolitan areas under different climate change scenarios

Environment International

Volumn 107, Issue , 2017, Pages 196-204

  Weinberger, Kate R ^a   Haykin, Leah ^a   Eliot, Melissa N ^a   Schwartz, Joel D ^b   Gasparrini, Antonio ^c   Wellenius, Gregory A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Climate change; Health impacts; United States

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAT RELATED MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; UNITED STATES; US METROPOLITAN AREAS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOWNSCALING; HEALTH IMPACT; METROPOLITAN AREA; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT; HUMAN; MORTALITY RATE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

UNITED STATES;

CITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85025477351     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.07.006     Document Type: Article

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