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Impacts of temperature and its variability on mortality in New England

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  • Liuhua Shi

    (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

  • Itai Kloog

    (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, PO Box 653, Israel)

  • Antonella Zanobetti

    (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

  • Pengfei Liu

    (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

  • Joel D. Schwartz

    (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

Abstract

Modelling shows that although the impact of warmer summers and winters may cancel each other out, climate change could still have a significant impact on mortality rates in New England owing to changes in temperature variability.

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  • Liuhua Shi & Itai Kloog & Antonella Zanobetti & Pengfei Liu & Joel D. Schwartz, 2015. "Impacts of temperature and its variability on mortality in New England," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 5(11), pages 988-991, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:5:y:2015:i:11:d:10.1038_nclimate2704
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2704
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