Temporally Compound Heat Wave Events and Global Warming: An Emerging Hazard

Earth's Future

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 411-427

  Baldwin, Jane Wilson ^a   Dessy, Jay Benjamin ^a   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Oppenheimer, Michael ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compound; global climate model; global warming; health; heat wave; risk

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEALTH RISK; HEAT WAVE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATURAL HAZARD; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 85064515001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2018EF000989     Document Type: Article

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