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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...
Autores principales: | Nairn, John R., Fawcett, Robert J. B. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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