Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia

Author:

Im Eun-Soon1ORCID,Pal Jeremy S.2,Eltahir Elfatih A. B.3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Division of Environment and Sustainability, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

2. Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA.

3. Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Abstract

Climate change poses a deadly heat wave risk to South Asia due to population density, poverty, and outdoor working conditions.

Funder

National Research Foundation Singapore

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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