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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Heatwaves"”.
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Extreme value modelling of heatwaves
… accurate models for the risks associated with heatwaves are important to decision makers and planners who wish to reduce the number of people affected by these extreme events. Extreme value theory provides a statistical framework for modelling extreme events. Extreme value models for …
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Marine heatwaves in the Bay of Biscay: characterization, trends and impacts
Las olas de calor marinas son episodios transitorios de temperaturas oceánicas extremadamente altas que pueden causar impactos profundos y duraderos en la estructura y el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas marinos, así como en los medios de vida humanos y las actividades económicas que dependen de …
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Machine Learning for Bias Correction in Climate Models, with Application to Forecasting Heatwaves
… more accurate climate statistics, focusing on heatwaves. Current correction models find it challenging to generate accurate climate statistics on heatwaves due to their difficulty in correcting temporal statistics, which require capturing dependencies across multiple consecutive time points. …
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HOW HEATWAVES ARE CHANGING URBAN LIVABILITY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES: A CASE STUDY IN TEN COMMUNITIES
<p>Heatwaves are an important type of extreme climate event and directly result in more than 130 deaths and thousands of morbidities per year across the United States. Heat waves increase demands on water and energy, particularly in urban areas, because people use more water for drinking, …
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Reimagining Urban Leftover Spaces Under Overpasses: Mitigating Urban Heat Islands and Heatwaves Through Green Space Transformation
The urban thermal environment is deteriorating due to the constructed urban space and climate change, which negatively impacts public health, especially in the Urban Canopy Layer (UCL). Recent research has investigated the contribution of microclimate parametric in specific urban typologies such as …
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Fish Assemblage Structure Before and After a Marine Heatwave in West Hawai'i
Coral reefs are subject to marine heatwaves caused by human-induced climate change. Long-term thermal stress can negatively affect corals and the associated marine organisms that use these areas as critical habitat. In this study, we examined coral reef resilience to climate change by analyzing …
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Living costs of ocean acidification and warming in herbivorous gastropods and their adaptations
… In addition, extreme climatic events, such as heatwaves, will become more prevalent and persistent due to global warming. Thus, extensive studies have been conducted to determine how ocean acidification and warming affect marine organisms. It is generally considered that these climate change …
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Solar-Powered Critical Cooling: A Theoretical Feasibility Study for Human Thermal Regulation
… in the frequency, intensity, and duration of heatwaves in the coming decades this threat to life is expected to only increase. Air conditioning has been demonstrated to reduce mortality during heatwaves yet uses an order of magnitude more energy than necessary to keep a human cool. Using …
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Rate-induced tipping to metastable Zombie fires
… including global warming scenarios and summer heatwaves. Mathematically speaking, R-tipping to the hot metastable state is a nonautonomous instability, due to crossing an elusive quasithreshold, in a multiple-timescale dynamical system. The instability is {\em reversible}, in the sense that the …
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Health impacts of climate change in the older population
… classifying into several types of responses to heatwaves, meteorological disaster and infectious disease in the elderly group. The objectives of this study are (1) assess the effects of climate changes on the health of the elderly in each category; (2) to calculate those relative and comparative …
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Effect of Extreme Temperature on Stroke Incidence and Mortality in General
… the growing impact of extreme temperatures, both heatwaves and cold spells on stroke incidence and mortality, a concern heightened by climate change. This systematic literature review investigates the relationship between extreme temperatures and stroke outcomes at a global level. Methods: A …
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Flow and thermal regimes in river networks: effects of hydropower regulation and climate extremes
… activities. Extreme climate change case of heatwaves in 2003 and 2006 are selected and analysed especially. Results of the three research components in correspondents to listed research questions showed that river hydrological regimes have more directly/important influence on the variation …
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Heat wave mitigation strategies for wine grape production and measures of the impact of heat on berry ripening and wine composition
… evidence and forecasted more intense and longer heatwaves requires that mitigation strategies be investigated that can reduce the high temperature impacts on berry development and in particular loss of berry mass and cell death. The aims of this research were: (i) develop a more practical and …
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Demonstration and implementation of thermally passive low-income housing : a case study in Bhuj
… citizens lost their lives as a result of deadly heatwaves that topped 46°C. Globally, more than 7,500 deaths were caused by extreme heat the same year. Those living in resource-constrained communities without the means to construct substantial housing are the most vulnerable to these harsh …
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Coral reefs in the Anthropocene Ocean: novel insights from skeletal proxies of climate change, impacts, and resilience
… of these changes, including intensifying marine heatwaves (MHWs) and rapid ocean acidification (OA). Consequently, coral reefs are in broad-scale decline, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people. Ensuring survival of coral reefs in the 21st century will thus require a new …
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Impact of Climate Change Risks on Housing Resilience: A Case Study of Khayelitsha, South Africa
… and vulnerability to hazards such as floods and heatwaves (IPCC, 2022). In Africa, fragile infrastructure, overcrowding, and unsafe housing intensify these impacts, turning minor climate events into severe disasters (Fitchett et al., 2016; Pauleit et al., 2015). As a result, poor and informal …
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Building Coastal City Resilience and Extreme Heat Action in Zanzibar, Tanzania through Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment (MHRA)
… vulnerabilities of compound risks related to heatwaves and flooding in Zanzibar, East Africa, in partnership with the Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS). Recent increase in temperature and precipitation have heightened Zanzibar's vulnerability. With one of the highest population densities in …
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Advancing a gendered approach to climate adaptation in the metropolitan cities of Cape Town and Ethekwini
… global news has regularly featured reports of heatwaves in the Pacific North-West of America, floods in Germany and China, and droughts in South Africa. July 2021 was significant in South Africa in this regard: alongside existing disaster legislation enacted to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, the …
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Machine Learning and Geostatistical Approaches for Discovery of Weather and Climate Events Related to El Niño Phenomena
… weather patterns caused by El Nino and marine heatwaves in nesting sea turtle habitats. Finally, expanding this study on ENSO yielded novel ways to analyze and understand the underlying processes driving unprecedented global heat waves and their association with ENSO.</p>
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