Defining Heatwaves with Respect to Human Biometeorology. The Case of Attica Region, Greece

To date, due to climate change, heatwaves are more frequent, with greater intensity and duration resulting in deleterious impacts on human health. be able manage quantify the health, it is crucial define them implement policy preventive measures. However, relative of a location: The same meteorological conditions can constitute heatwave one place but not another. Due different climatic conditions, social characteristics, adaptation, should defined local scale, which poses difficulties when comes comparison definitions. aim present study heatwaves, implementing robust statistical analysis for three indicators (temperature, physiological equivalent temperature (PET), universal thermal index (UTCI)) causes mortality (i.e., cardiological respiratory cardiorespiratory mortality) using Attica (Greece) as case study. Our results period at least 3 days mean higher than 97.5th percentile. Afterwards, we encapsulate harvesting effect by analysis, Superposed Epoch analysis. Consequently, quantifying so create early warning systems prevent avoidable mortality.