Development of the Adjusted Wind Chill Equivalent Temperature (AWCET) for cold mortality assessment across a subtropical city: validation and comparison with a spatially-controlled time-stratified approach

Development of the Adjusted Wind Chill Equivalent Temperature (AWCET) for cold mortality assessment across a subtropical city: validation and comparison with a spatially-controlled time-stratified approach

Abstract Background Global warming has reduced the adaptability of the people living in subtropical regions to cope up with cold stress due to lengthening of hot days and shortening of transition period from hot to cold weather. However, existing studies on measuring cold stress are based on biomete...

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Main Authors: Hung Chak Ho, Man Sing Wong, Sawaid Abbas, Rui Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
Cold stress
Mortality assessment
Biometeorological index
Wind chill
Subtropical
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-7612-5

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