Vulnerability to extreme heat in Metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, temporal, and demographic dimensions

• Main Authors: CHOW, Winston T. L., CHUANG, Wen-Ching, GOBER, Patricia
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• 主題: Physical and Environmental Geography; Place and Environment
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3039; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4296/viewcontent/Vulnerability_to_Extreme_Heat_in_Metropolitan_Phoenix_av.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

This study assessed the spatial distribution of vulnerability to extreme heat in 1990 and 2000 within metropolitan Phoenix based on an index of seven equally weighted measures of physical exposure and adaptive capacity. These measures were derived from spatially interpolated climate, normalized diff...