GH21A:
Improving Heat Stress–Related Health Outcomes Through Adaptation and Mitigation: Advances in Modeling Heat Stress Hazards, Exposure, and Vulnerability I


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Session ID#: 60096

Session Description:
Increases in extreme heat are some of the most robust changes projected by climate models. The need for additional research on associated health risks is well-recognized, as exemplified by the incorporation of additional heat stress-related variables in CMIP6. At the same time, demographic changes are likely to alter how populations are exposed and vulnerable to increased heat stress. This session will bring together advances in modeling heat stress hazards, exposure, and vulnerability. Heat stress researchers from these arenas can discuss their data needs, how heat stress is incorporated into climate projections, and where improvements might lead to more readily usable information for practitioners and ultimately better health outcomes. This session will provide an opportunity for researchers like epidemiologists and climate modelers to exchange ideas on how to refine approaches that capture the adverse health impacts that might be avoided through mitigation, and identify adaptation gaps to be addressed by decision-makers.
Primary Convener:  Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States and Kristina Dahl, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Rachel Licker, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Meredith K Jennings, Houston Advanced Research Center, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kristina Dahl, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Future Risks of Extreme Heat (Invited) (363510)
Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Raleigh, United States and Andrew P Ballinger, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NCICS, Raleigh, NJ, United States
Modeling Heat-Related Risks in a Changing Climate (421015)
Kristie L Ebi, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Global Health, Seattle, WA, United States
Inescapable extreme heat: : Projected change in fine-resolution Heat Index values and threshold exceedances in the United States using downscaled CMIP5 data (444536)
Juan Declet-Barreto, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Rachel Licker, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C., United States and Kristina Dahl, Dahl Scientific, San Francisco, CA, United States
Health Effects of Heat Vulnerability in Rio de Janeiro: A Validation Model for Policy Applications (382435)
Diogo Oscar Borges Prosdocimi, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States and Kelly Klima, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Physiological Heat Stress Response, Renal Function, and Environmental Monitoring of Heat Hazards in Agricultural Workers (447435)
Linda McCauley1, Jacque Mix2, Vicki Hertzberg1, Valerie Mac2, Lisa Elon2, Antonio Tovar3 and Jeanne Economos4, (1)Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Emory University, Atlanta, United States, (3)Farmworker Association of Florida, Apopka, FL, United States, (4)Farmworker Association of Florida, Apopka, United States
Heat and Health in a Changing Climate: Building a Decision Support Tool for California Public Health Officials (349326)
Nik Steinberg1, Emilie Mazzacurati2, Joshua Colby Turner1, Colin Gannon, Robert V Dickinson4, Mark A Snyder5, Bridget L Thrasher4 and Aleka Seville6, (1)Four Twenty Seven, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Four Twenty Seven, Berkeley, United States, (3)Argos Analytics, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Univ California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority, Santa Rosa, United States
Extreme Heat and Ozone in Houston: Assessing and Reducing Health Risks (466430)
Olga Wilhelmi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Cassandra Olenick, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Eudcation and Outreach (E&O) / Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), Boulder, CO, United States, David Sailor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States, Ryan Michael, CDC, Atlanta, GA, United States, Mary Hayden, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Amir Baniassadi, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, United States, Andrew Monaghan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Christine Wiedinmyer, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Peter J Crank, Arizona State University, Urban Climate Research Center, Tempe, AZ, United States
Increasing Mitigation Ambition to Meet the Paris Agreement Goal Significantly Reduces Heat-related Mortality in Key U.S. Cities (379040)
Eunice Lo1, Dann Mitchell2, Antonio Gasparrini3, Ana Vicedo-Cabrera3, Kristie Ebi4, Peter C Frumhoff5, Richard Millar6,7, William H.G. Roberts8,9, Francesco Sera10, Sparrow Sarah11 and Peter Uhe2, (1)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (5)Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, United States, (6)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)Committee on Climate Change, London, United Kingdom, (8)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (9)Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (10)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (11)Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

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