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“Rising temperatures from more intense and frequent heatwaves will render coping mechanisms inadequate, as some regions meet and exceed limits to human survivability (Mora et al 2017).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mora, C., Dousset, B., Caldwell, I. R., Powell, F. E., Geronimo, R. C., Bielecki, C. R., Counsell, C. W. W., Dietrich, B. S., Johnston, E. T., Louis, L. V., Lucas, M. P., McKenzie, M. M., Shea, A. G., Tseng, H., Giambelluca, T. W., Leon, L. R., Hawkins, E., & Trauernicht, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (US)
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mora, Camilo
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2017-06-19
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 501-506
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2626726142
- Cited by
- 1,746
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 250 · 2025: 262 · 2024: 227 · 2023: 193 · 2022: 183 · 2021: 215 · 2020: 174 · 2019: 140 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 22
- FWCI
- 60.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- ResearchOnline - JCU (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
- CentAUR (University of Reading) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Natural Environment Research Council (ncas10009, NE/I020792/1, NE/N018591/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Keywords
- heat-related mortality, human thermoregulation, relative humidity, surface air temperature, climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, humid tropics, global risk assessment, heat waves
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