Human Health and Disease

Projections of changes in health-related climate indicators generated by ATMOS Research have been used in the following reports and studies:

1. The Changing Northeast Climate: Our Choices, Our Legacy, a report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) – summer temperatures, and the frequency of the average number of “extreme heat” days per summer (October 2006)
   
   
2. Public Health-Related Impacts of Climate Change in California, a report from the California Climate Change Center – projections of changes in extreme heat and oppressive summer heat events, with estimated implications for urban heat-related mortality in five major California cities (March 2006)
   
   
3. Climate Change in California: Health, Economic and Equity Impacts, a report produced by Redefining Progress for the California Air Resources Board – future changes in average annual and monthly temperatures for individual California counties, and race-based estimates of heat-related mortality, to identify socio-economic inequities and increased health risks (January 2006)