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Extreme Heat and Its Impacts in a Changing Climate
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Extreme Heat and Its Impacts in a Changing Climate. |
| 개인저자 | Coffel, Ethan D. |
| 단체저자명 | Columbia University. Earth and Environmental Sciences. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Columbia University., 2018. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018. |
| 형태사항 | 151 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertation Abstracts International 79-12B(E). Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9780438169609 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2018. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: B.
Adviser: Radley M. Horton. |
| 요약 | Climate change has already increased the frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves around the world. In the coming decades, this trend will continue and likely accelerate, exposing much of the world's population to historically unpreceden |
| 요약 | In addition to rising temperatures, atmospheric humidity has been observed to increase in recent decades and models project this trend to continue. As a result, joint heat-humidity metrics indicating heat stress are likely to rapidly increase in |
| 요약 | The projected changes in extreme temperatures will have a variety of impacts on infrastructure and other human systems. This dissertation explores how more frequent and severe hot conditions will impact aircraft takeoff performance by reducing a |
| 요약 | Finally, this dissertation discusses evidence-based adaptation strategies to reduce the impacts of extreme heat in urban areas. It reviews a body of literature showing that effective strategies exist to both lower urban temperatures on a large s |
| 일반주제명 | Atmospheric sciences. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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