(Press-News.org) A Global Heat Early Warning system is now essential, and requires planning in four key areas to overcome barriers and enable successful implementation, per new review.
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000437
Article Title: Preventing heat-related deaths: The urgent need for a global early warning system for heat
Author Countries: Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, US
Funding: CB,IMO, CG and JT are funded by Horizon Europe through the HIGH horizon project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme (grant number 101057843). IMO and CG are also supported by the ENBEL Project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme (grant number 101003966). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 847456). Support from the Swiss National Science Foundation through project PP00P2_198896 to D.I.V.D. is gratefully acknowledged. CT received support from the NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program (grant numbers 80NSSC22K0470 and 80NSSC23K0525). JDR supported in part by grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office Climate Adaptation Partnerships program [NA21OAR4310312] and through the Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth Systems under Cooperative Agreement [NA19NES4320002]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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A Global Heat Early Warning system is now essential, and requires planning in four key areas to overcome barriers and enable successful implementation, per new review
2024-07-02
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