GH006
Differential Health Impacts of Heat Extremes on Individuals and Communities
Session ID#: 82676
Session Description:
Extreme heat events are expected to become more frequent, more intense, and more widespread in the coming decades as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere. Together with changes in population, this suggests a greater number of people will be exposed to extreme heat in the future.
The health risks associated with extreme heat depend on many factors in addition to exposure, such as a person’s age, socioeconomic status, and living conditions or a community’s natural or built cooling infrastructure and heat warning systems. At both individual- and community-scales, the impacts of extreme heat are entwined with issues of equity and environmental justice.
This session will bring together GeoHealth, Natural Hazards, and Global Environmental Change researchers who are examining factors influencing the differential susceptibility of individuals or communities to heat-related illness. We welcome perspectives from fields including, but not limited to, public health, epidemiology, environmental justice, and climate modeling.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners: Rupa Basu, California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, United States, Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Adrienne Hollis, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison: Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Future changes in minimum mortality temperatures in cities around the globe (634929)
Linda Krummenauer1, Boris F Prahl2, Luís Costa Carvalho1, Anne Holsten1, Carsten Walther1, Veronika Huber3 and Juergen Kropp1, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Carbon Delta, Zurich, Switzerland, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
Climate Injustice in Cities: Extreme Heat and Poor Neighborhoods (507804)
Sharon Harlan, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States, Paul Chakalian, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, David Hondula, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States and Darrel Jenerette, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Advancing Climate-Health Research with Stochastic Weather Generators (517212)
Andrew Verdin1, Kathryn Grace2, Chris C Funk3, Frank Davenport4 and Gregory J Husak4, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation; Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, (3)USGS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Characterization of Heat Index Experienced by Individuals Residing in Urban and Rural Settings in Alabama, USA (598704)
Suwei Wang, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, United States, Connor Wu, Troy University, Social Sciences- Geography, Troy, United States, Molly B Richardson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Medicine, Birmingham, AL, United States, Benjamin Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States and Julia Gohlke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Population Health Sciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Growing Heat Risk for U.S. Agricultural Workers Only Mitigated by Strong Adaptive Measures (607249)
Michelle Tigchelaar, Stanford University, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford, CA, United States, David Battisti, University of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and June Spector, University of Washington, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Limits to Survivability in Extreme Heat (615412)
Yi-Chuan Lu, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and David Romps, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Hot Pockets: Rethinking the National Weather Service Approach to Heat Hazards in the Louisville Urban Heat Island (618617)
Kristine Chen1, Joseph Sullivan2 and Theodore Funk2, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (2)National Weather Service Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
Vulnerability to heat and ozone among older adults: Results from a household survey in Houston, TX (629585)
Olga Wilhelmi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Cassandra O'Lenick, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Mary Hayden, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Ryan Michael, CDC, Atlanta, GA, United States, David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States and Amir Baniassadi, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, United States
