Environmental and health impacts of extreme heat events
In the United States (U.S.), extreme temperature-related deaths account for far more deaths than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes combined. An extreme heat event (EHE) or a heat wave is a sustained period of substantially hotter and/or more humid weather. EHEs cause a wide r...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54021 |