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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: CHOW, Winston T. L., CHUANG, Wen-Ching, GOBER, Patricia
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• الموضوعات: Physical and Environmental Geography; Place and Environment
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: 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
• المؤسسة: 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...