HThe 15,000 excess deaths in France during August, compared with previous years, have been related to the high night-time temperatures. The number gradually increased during the first 12days of the month, peaking at about 2,000 per day on the night of 12-13 August, then fell off dramatic...
2,3. Europe has seen a particularly strong increase in heat extremes since the deadly summer 2003 heatwave4,5, which is estimated to have caused ~70,000 excess deaths6. This tendency is illustrated by the recent cluster of consecutive exceptionally...
European nations pressured to tally heat wave deaths
Climate change, heat waves, and mortality projections for Chicago An "analog city" analysis, transposing the weather conditions from the European Heat Wave of 2003 (responsible for 70,000 deaths across Europe) to the ... K Hayhoe,S Sheridan,L Kalkstein,... - 《Journal of Great Lakes Resear...
The summer of 2003 was probably the hottest in Europe since at latest ad 15001,2,3,4, and unusually large numbers of heat-related deaths were reported in France, Germany and Italy5. It is an ill-posed question whether the 2003 heatwave was caused, in a s
Summer 2003 was analyzed separately to assess the impact of this exceptional heat wave episode that affected most of the European cities, and results were compared with heat waves from other years included in the study period. Data base Mortality data were daily counts of primary deaths for all...
The predicted number of air pollution related deaths in the UK during the August 2003 heatwave There was a major heatwave across much of Europe in the first two weeks of August 2003, during which temperatures peaked at a new record of 38.5° C in the... JR Stedman - 《Atmospheric Environm...
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Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into account. Credit: Pixabay The 2015 summer heat wave had a lowermagnitudethan that which occurred in the summer of 2003, but was comparable to other heat wa...
By:SeanCampbellATMS11102/23/2009What is a Heat Wave? • TheWorldMeteorologicalOrganizationdefinesaheatwaveasalengthoffiveormoreconsecutivedaysofheatexceedingtheaveragemaximumtemperatureoftheareaby5°C(9°F)• Insimplerterms,aheatwaveisaprolongedperiodofexcessivelyhotweather,whichmaybeaccompanie...