Winter season mortality: will climate warming bring benefits?

Extreme heat events are associated with spikes in mortality, yet death rates are on average highest during the coldest months of the year. Under the assumption that most winter excess mortality is due to cold temperature, many previous studies have concluded that winter mortality will substantially...

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Main Authors: Patrick L Kinney, Joel Schwartz, Mathilde Pascal, Elisaveta Petkova, Alain Le Tertre, Sylvia Medina, Robert Vautard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064016