Measuring Heatwaves and Their Impacts

Disher, Benjamin; Edwards, Brandon; Lawler, Thomas; Radford, Douglas

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-0596-7_1102

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“…After all, the main impact of heatwaves, aside from mortality, is their indirect losses in the flow of economic activity which are substantially harder to identify and measure than damages (stocks). These under-measured heatwave losses include economic disruptions due to disturbed hydroelectricity distribution, transport failures, ongoing harm to agricultural crop yields and health, and harm to the natural environment 57,58 . Moreover, a further 25% of events without economic data are droughts-with the majority occurring in Africa-which is reflective of the geographically uneven distribution of disaster cost records between lower and higher-income regions.…”

Section: Extreme Event Attribution Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change

Newman,

Noy

2023

Nat Commun

103

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Extreme weather events lead to significant adverse societal costs. Extreme Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate change-induced component of these costs. We collect data from all available EEA studies, combine these with data on the socio-economic costs of these events and extrapolate for missing data to arrive at an estimate of the global costs of extreme weather attributable to climate change in the last twenty years. We find that US$$\$$$ $ 143 billion per year of the costs of extreme events is attributable to climatic change. The majority (63%), of this is due to human loss of life. Our results suggest that the frequently cited estimates of the economic costs of climate change arrived at by using Integrated Assessment Models may be substantially underestimated.

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Section: Extreme Event Attribution Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change

Newman,

Noy

2023

Nat Commun

103

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A GIS-based framework to assess heatwave vulnerability and impact scenarios in urban systems

D’Ambrosio

Martino

Miraglia

2023

Sci Rep

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In this work, we propose a GIS-based platform aimed at the analysis of heatwave scenarios risks produced in urbanised environments, applied to assess vulnerability and impact heatwave scenarios. Our framework implements a hierarchical model that represents a good trade-off between forecast accuracy and portability in different urban fabrics, apart from the spatial scale of the data, using topographic and remote sensing spatial data provided by institutional agencies. The framework has been applied to two study areas: the dense city of Naples (Italy) and the intermediately populated city of Avellino (Italy) in order to evaluate its accuracy performances and portability in different urban fabrics. Our framework can be used by urban planners and decision makers as a tool to locate potential risk zones where it is necessary to implement climate-resilient solutions.

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