Session 9B |
| | Heat Waves and Human Health |
| | Organizer: Gerd Jendritzky, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Freiburg Germany
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| 1:00 PM | 9B.1 | Climate Change Adaptations: Trends in Human Mortality Responses to Summer Heat in the United States 
Robert E. Davis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, W. M. Novicoff, and P. J. Michaels |
| 1:15 PM | 9B.2 | Heat waves and heat mortality in the United States during the Twentieth Century
Karl K. Leiker, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA |
| 1:30 PM | 9B.3 | Rural/Urban Differences in Heat-Related Mortality in Ohio
Scott C. Sheridan, Kent State University, Kent, OH |
|  | 9B.4 | Short term human heat adaptation in hot and dry conditions
Stefan Becker, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany |
| 1:44 PM | 9B.5 | Public health impacts of drought
Michael J. Hayes, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| 1:59 PM | 9B.6 | Barriers and prospects in advancing Human Biometeorology in Canada
Harby Sandhu, Atmospheric Science and Management Associates, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and A. Maarouf |