A study on the monitoring of heatwaves and bivariate frequency analysis based on mortality risk assessment in Wuhan, Chinaopen access
- Authors
- Chen, Si; Zhao, Junrui; Dou,Haonan; Yang,Zhaoqian; Li,Fei; Byun,Jihye; Kim,Seong Wook
- Issue Date
- Jun-2024
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A.
- Keywords
- heatwave risk; copula function; global climate models; co-occurrence return periods; Wuhan city
- Citation
- Frontiers in Public Health, v.12, no.1, pp 1 - 15
- Pages
- 15
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Volume
- 12
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 15
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/119884
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1409563
- ISSN
- 2296-2565
2296-2565
- Abstract
- The increasingly frequent occurrence of urban heatwaves has become a significant threat to human health. To quantitatively analyze changes in heatwave characteristics and to investigate the return periods of future heatwaves in Wuhan City, China, this study extracted 9 heatwave definitions and divided them into 3 mortality risk levels to identify and analyze historical observations and future projections of heatwaves. The copula functions were employed to derive the joint distribution of heatwave severity and duration and to analyze the co-occurrence return periods. The results demonstrate the following. (1) As the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions increases, the severity of heatwaves intensifies, and the occurrence of heatwaves increases significantly; moreover, a longer duration of heatwaves correlated with higher risk levels in each emission scenario. (2) Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions result in significantly shorter heatwave co-occurrence return periods at each level of risk. (3) In the 3 risk levels under each emission scenario, the co-occurrence return periods for heatwaves become longer as heatwave severity intensifies and duration increases. Under the influence of climate change, regional-specific early warning systems for heatwaves are necessary and crucial for policymakers to reduce heat-related mortality risks in the population, especially among vulnerable groups.
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