Background: Extreme heat events are the number one cause of weather-related fatalities in the United States. The current system of alert for extreme heat events does not take into account intra-urban spatial variation in risk. The purpose of this study is to evaluate a potential method to improve spatial delineation of risk from extreme heat events in urban environments by integrating socio-demographic risk factors with estimates of land surface temperature derived from thermal remote sensing data.
Results: Comparison of logistic regression models indicates that supplementing known socio-demographic risk factors with remote sensing estimates of land surface temperature improves the delineation of intra-urban variations in risk from extreme heat events.
Conclusion: Thermal remote sensing data can be utilized to improve understanding of intra-urban variations in risk from extreme heat. The refinement of current risk assessment systems could increase the…
read morePart of China has been hit by low-temperature and blizzard since 2 January. The snow disaster lead to the most tremendous snow in Beijing and Tianjin since 1951 and it is bound to move to the south of China during 4-6 January 2010.
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Due to low temperatures in the country 5,960 people have stayed in the 15 shelters opened by the Government response body since November 2009.
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Emergency was declared for 4 municipalities in Zacatecas after severe frosts during Dec 2009.
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Cold wave in early January has caused at least 100 deaths in India and 18 deaths in southern region of Nepal.
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Cold Wave in early January has claimed at least 18 lives in Nepal's southern region.
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In Warsaw, police officials said 15 people froze to death on 19 Dec alone, bringing to 57 the number of people who have died in Poland from exposure to the severe weather since early December.
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According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA ), heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China. Mmore than 9,000 buildings collapsed and about 190,400 hectares of crops were affected, causing direct economic losses of around 4.5 billion yuan (about 659 million U.S. dollars).
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Government of Peru reporting 539 people affected and 42 houses damaged due to low temperatures in the Departament of Apurimac, Arequipa and Ayacucho
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read moreAccording to official statement, the death toll in the heat wave sweeping across Orissa has risen to 31 on Monday(11/05/2009, Times of India reported).
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