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CATEGORIES:Energy and Environment Group\, Department of CST
SUMMARY:Tracking Compound Heat and Humidity Impacts - Chlo
 e Brimicombe\, Wegener Center\, University of Graz
 \, Austria
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UID:TALK211933AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/211933
DESCRIPTION:\nCompounds of high humidity and heat are deadly. 
 With our changing climate an increasing proportion
  of the world’s land surface is being exposed to h
 igher temperatures and humidity\, with this rise b
 eing faster in populated areas. One metric to meas
 ure heat stress\, a rise in body heat as the resul
 t of external environment and exertion is Wet Bulb
  Globe Temperature (WBGT) the International Organi
 zation’s occupational health metric. However\, Wet
  Bulb Globe Temperature is often not observed at a
  meteorological station because of a key instrumen
 t – a globe thermometer being expensive to purchas
 e and in local cases often being stolen from sites
 . This led to several approximations being develop
 ed\, with differing levels of accuracy. In this ta
 lk\, I will discuss a new method developed for num
 erical weather prediction models to produce accura
 te WBGT measurements. I will then discuss gaps wit
 hin literature for WBGT and biases that exist with
 in the literature. Before\, discussing how we are 
 applying the new WBGT data to research such as hea
 t related child mortality and our developments in 
 comparing WBGT heatwaves to temperature heatwaves 
 through a heatwave algorithm. Finally\, I will dis
 cuss how this WBGT data could be applied to energy
  systems and chances for future avenues of researc
 h.\n\nBio:\n\nDr Chloe Brimicombe is a post-doctor
 al researcher in the Social Complexity and System 
 Transformation Research Group at the Wegener Cente
 r\, University of Graz\, Austria and visiting fell
 ow at the London School of Economic and Public Pol
 icy. She is a Climate Scientist and Extreme Heat R
 esearcher focused on heat impacts such as those on
  pregnant women and children's health. She previou
 sly helped to develop thermal comfort indices for 
  the European Center for Medium Range Weather Fore
 casts Numerical Weather Prediction Products. 
LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://
 cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZw
 Rm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&amp\;from=addon 
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