Published December 2019 | Version v1
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Mortality risk and burden associated with temperature variability in China, United Kingdom and United States: Comparative analysis of daily and hourly exposure metrics

Creators

  • 1. Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430065 (China)
  • 2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Medical College, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430065 (China)
  • 3. Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430079 (China)
  • 4. Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071 (China)
  • 5. Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080 (China)
  • 6. Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
  • 7. Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, 02912 (United States)
  • 8. The Institute of Metabolic Diseases, Baoan Central Hospital of Shenzhen, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518102 (China)
  • 9. Department of Precision Health and Data Science, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003 (China)
  • 10. Department of Environmental Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, School of Public Health, Medical College, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430065 (China)

Description

Temperature variability (TV) is closely associated with climate change, but there is no unified TV definition worldwide. Two novel composite TV indexes were developed recently by calculating the standard deviations of several days' daily maximum and minimum temperatures (TVdaily), or hourly mean temperatures (TVhourly).

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.envres.2019.108771;
PII
S0013935119305687;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Environmental Research
Journal Volume
179
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0013-9351
CODEN
ENVRAL

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
55026228
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH HAZARDS; METRICS; MORTALITY
Descriptors DEC
CLIMATIC CHANGE; HAZARDS

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