The motley drivers of heat and cold exposure in 21st century US cities [Sustainability Science]

We use a suite of decadal-length regional climate simulations to quantify potential changes in population-weighted heat and cold exposure in 47 US metropolitan regions during the 21st century. Our results show that population-weighted exposure to locally defined extreme heat (i.e., “population heat exposure”) would increase by a factor of 12.7–29.5...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - August 31, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ashley Mark Broadbent, Eric Scott Krayenhoff, Matei Georgescu Tags: Physical Sciences Source Type: research