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Variations of temperature, wind speed and humidity within Birmingham New Street Station during hot weather
Author(s) -
Thornes Tobias
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2358
Subject(s) - wind speed , meteorology , humidity , environmental science , apparent temperature , weather station , atmospheric sciences , climatology , geography , geology
Studies of the European heatwaves of 2003 and 2006 have shown that extremely high temperatures lead to increased mortality rates amongst more vulnerable populations such as the ill and elderly and have wider ranging effects on health, well-being and infrastructure (Tomlinson et al., 2013). Inner-city areas are most at risk from heatwaves, as a result of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect whereby land use and anthropogenic heat sources raise urban temperatures to higher levels or maintain high temperatures for longer periods than in the surrounding countryside (Tomlinson, 2012a). In the West Midlands, a heatwave occurs when temperatures at a given location exceed 30 °C on two consecutive days and do not fall below 15 °C on the intervening night (Public Health England, 2013)