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Last year, severe heat waves killed more than 100 people in India and neighboring Pakistan in April and May alone. The scorching temperatures also destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, affecting millions of people in India's vast agriculture sector. Scientists have linked the killer...
Heatwaves with severe impacts have increased and projected to become more frequent under warming climate in India. Concurrent day and nighttime heatwaves can exacerbate human discomfort causing high morbidity and mortality; however, their changes in the observed and projected climate remain unrecognized....
Temperatures are expected to slightly cool over the coming days, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), however experts say the climate crisis is only going to cause more frequent and longer heatwaves in the future, testing India’s ability to adapt. “India has a history of ...
Last year,severe heat waves killed more than 100 peoplein India and Pakistan alone in April and May, again destroying crops and affecting millions of people. "Just like this year, last year the heat wave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Th...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that the frequency of heat waves (HWs) is likely to increase over most land areas in the twenty-first century. Recurrent HWs are an emerging environmental and health concern and already distress in rapidly growing and fast urbanizing ...
During heat waves, the temperature in urban areas increases even more than in surrounding rural areas, which leads to an intensification of the urban heat island effect. The study finds that the magnitude of this effect is influenced by several factors, including land use, vegetation cover, and...
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The heat waves over India are projected to be more intense and occur more frequently in future4. Climatologically heatwaves occur during March to June10,11, with high frequency over north, northwest, central and the eastern coastal regions of India. The heatwaves over India have been linked ...
Modeling intra-urban differences in thermal environments and heat stress based on local climate zones in central Wuhan 2022, Building and Environment Show abstract Effects of heat waves on urban warming across different urban morphologies and climate zones 2022, Building and Environment Show abstract Pro...