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Projected Heat Stress Under 1.5 °C and 2 °C Global Warming Scenarios Creates Unprecedented Discomfort for Humans in West Africa

Published:2018-07 Issue:7 Volume:6 Page:1029-1044
ISSN:2328-4277
Container-title:Earth's Future
language:en
Short-container-title:Earth's Future

Author:

Sylla Mouhamadou Bamba¹^ORCID,Faye Aissatou¹²³,Giorgi Filippo²,Diedhiou Arona⁴,Kunstmann Harald⁵

Affiliation:

1. Competence Center; West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use; Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

2. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Earth System Physics Section; Trieste Italy

3. Graduate Research Program on West African Climate System, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Akure Nigeria

4. University of Grenoble Alpes, IRD, CNRS, Grenoble INP, IGE; Grenoble France

5. Department of Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research; Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany

Funder

German Ministry of Education and Research

Publisher

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Subject

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),General Environmental Science

Link

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1029/2018EF000873/fullpdf

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