The Potential of Urban Environmental Control in Alleviating Heat-wave Health Effects in Five Us Regions
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Heat waves can cause severe thermal environmental stress leading to higher hospital admission rates, health complications, and increased mortality. These effects arise because of one or more meteorology-related factors such as higher effective temperatures, sunshine, more consecutive hot days and nights, stagnation, increased humidity, increased pollutant emissions, and accelerated photochemical smog and particulate formation.
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شنـاسـایی، طبقهبندی و تحلیل سینوپتیک موج اَبَـر گـرم تابستان 1389 ایــران
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