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The Excess Heat Factor: A Metric for Heatwave Intensity and Its Use in Classifying Heatwave Severity

Heatwaves represent a significant natural hazard in Australia, arguably more hazardous to human life than bushfires, tropical cyclones and floods. In the 2008/2009 summer, for example, many more lives were lost to heatwaves than to that summer’s bushfires which were among the worst in the history of...

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Autores principales: Nairn, John R., Fawcett, Robert J. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25546282
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120100227