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

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 biometeorologic...

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Autores principales: Ho, Hung Chak, Wong, Man Sing, Abbas, Sawaid, Zhu, Rui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6794828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31615481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7612-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6794828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31615481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7612-5

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