Year: 1999
Type: other
Abstract: Predicting Heat WorldwideAn international team of climate experts, health officials, and meteorology agencies sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are joining forces to install heat health watch and warning systems worldwide.The sys- tems, based on a University of Delaware (UD) computer program, are already operating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC.Over the next several years, similar systems will be installed overseas in Rome and Shanghai to provide health officials with up to 60 hours' advance warning of dangerously hot weath- er, says Laurence S. Kalkstein, director of UD's Synoptic Climatology Center.Plans for the Italian warning system were discussed over 1-2 Februaryl999, when Kalkstein met in Rome with repre- sentatives from Italy's Lazio Health Authority, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organiza- tion, and the Italian Meteorological Service.The meeting followed a 28 January 1999 announcement by the American Geophysical Union concerning climate change and greenhouse gases.While cli- mate researchers are still struggling to
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,500
OpenAlex ID: W4246200962