Open AccessHEAT WAVES AT THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FAR EAST AND HUMAN HEALTH
Author(s) -
Elena A. Grigorieva
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zdorovʹe naseleniâ i sreda obitaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2619-0788
pISSN - 2219-5238
DOI - 10.35627/2219-5238/2017-287-2-11-14
Subject(s) - percentile , heat wave , demography , geography , intensity (physics) , period (music) , climatology , oceanography , geology , statistics , mathematics , climate change , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology , acoustics
A heat wave (HW) in Khabarovsk in summer is determined as exceeding the daily mean temperature of95 % percentile for three or more days, when the mortality increases to 36 % compared to the averagevalues, which is about 8 cases of additional mortality. Spatial-temporal analysis of HW in the southernpart of the Russian Far East for the period 1960–2012 using this approach revealed that the smallestnumber of HW was observed in 1960–1969, the largest – 1980–1989, with a maximum at thecontinental stations; in all cases the long wave is distinguished by the highest intensity.