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Humid heat waves at different warming levels

The co-occurrence of consecutive hot and humid days during a heat wave can strongly affect human health. Here, we quantify humid heat wave hazard in the recent past and at different levels of global warming. We find that the magnitude and apparent temperature peak of heat waves, such as the ones obs...

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Autores principales: Russo, Simone, Sillmann, Jana, Sterl, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5547064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28785096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07536-7