Session 4B Urban Heat - Health Issues

Monday, 29 September 2014: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Salon III (Embassy Suites Cleveland - Rockside)
Host: 20th International Congress of Biometeorology
Chair:
Helmut Mayer, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Chair of Meteorology and Climatology, Freiburg,

Papers:
4:00 PM
4B.1
Simulated Mitigation of Heat Stress for Pedestrians in an Urban District of a Central European City by Different Green Scenarios
Hyunjung Lee, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, , Germany; and H. Mayer

4:15 PM
4B.2
Do urban green and urban blue mitigate heat-related excess mortality? Evidence from Lisbon, Portugal
Katrin Gabriele Burkart, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; and W. Endlicher, P. Canário, and M. João Alcoforado

4:30 PM
4B.3
How much does urbanization contribute to extreme heat events in Shanghai: Observations and trend analysis
Liang Chen, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China; and R. Jiang and W. N. Xiang

4B.4
Evaluating Human Cooling Strategies in Urban Environments

5:00 PM
4B.5
Challenges in projecting urbanization-induced heat-related mortality
David M. Hondula, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; and M. Georgescu and R. C. Balling Jr.

5:15 PM
4B.6
BioCAS: Biometeorological Climate impact Assessment System for Building-scale Impact Assessment of Heat-stress Related Mortality
Kyu Rang Kim, National Institute of Meteorological Research/Korea Meteorological Administration, Seogwipo-si, Jeju Province, Korea, Republic of (South); and C. Yi, J. S. Lee, B. C. Choi, D. Scherer, and F. Meier

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