Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia

The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C can be considered an upper limit on human survivability. On the basis of an ensemble of high-resolution climate change...

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Main Authors: Im, Eun-Soon, Pal, Jeremy S., Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113642
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6148-7997