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Description
As the number of warm days and nights continues to increase across Europe, so does the intensity, frequency and length of heat waves. Heat waves have caused many more fatalities in Europe in recent decades than any other extreme weather event, according to the European Environment Agency. However, the vulnerability of communities and individuals to heatwaves is localised, and depends on socioeconomic, political, physiological, and behavioural factors.
Blue-Action involves over 120 experts from 40 organisations in 17 countries, pooling expertise to improve how scientists model and predict the impact of warming in the Arctic region. It has developed a climate service to provide more accurate sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts of heat wave events. Co-designed with the City of Almada, Portugal, and other relevant national and international health agencies and built on the experiences of existing operational schemes, this initiative provides targeted information to help the public health sector improve decision-making, planning and adaptation to climate change.
With improved spatial resolution of climate data, as well as an exhaustive mortality dataset covering a large ensemble of 147 regions in 16 countries, this innovative prototype of heat health early warning system enables health services to predict the impacts of heat on health and therefore activate preventive actions, as well as to understand the spatiotemporal differences among European societies in human vulnerability to ambient temperatures.
Within the project, experts/partners have worked with a wide range of industries, sectors, and experts to provide an exhaustive overview about the best way to design and implement a heat health early warning system for Europe. Based on these inputs, it has been developed and implemented a prototype of the heat health early warning system. An evaluation of the product is also available within the section Deliverables of the project. In addition, some publications have already been published, specifically on (i) trends in temperature-related age-specific and sex-specific mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Spain and on (ii) the reversal of the seasonality of temperature-attributable mortality from respiratory diseases in Spain.
Project information
Lead
DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT, Denmark
Partners
LAPIN YLIOPISTO, Finland
CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE ALMADA, Portugal
FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI, Italy
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS, France
YONSEI UNIVERSITY, South Korea
DNV GL AS, Norway
DANMARKS PELAGISKE PRODUCENTORGANISATION FORENING, Denmark
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET, Denmark
FORESIGHT INTELLIGENCE GBR, Germany
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL, Germany
HAVSTOVAN, Faeroe Islands
INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS OFCHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, China
ORGANIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMYOF SCIENCES A.M. OBUKHOV INSTITUTEOF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS RAS, Russia
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES EV, Germany
FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE CIENCIES DEL CLIMA, Spain
FEDERAL STATE BUDGETARY INSTITUTION - INSTITUTE OF WORLD ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Russia
KONSORTIUM DEUTSCHE MEERESFORSCHUNG EV, Germany
MEOPAR INCORPORATED, Canada
MERCATOR OCEAN, France
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV, Germany
HAFRANNSOKNASTOFNUN, RANNSOKNA- OG RADGJAFARSTOFNUN HAFS OG VATNA, Iceland
MARINE SCOTLAND, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH NONPROFIT CORPORATION, United States
STIFTELSEN NANSEN SENTER FOR MILJOOG FJERNMALING, Norway
STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN, Netherlands
STICHTING NETHERLANDS ESCIENCE CENTER, Netherlands
UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, United Kingdom
PELAGIC FREEZER TRAWLER ASSOCIATION, Netherlands
RUKAKESKUS OY, Finland
THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINESCIENCE LBG, United Kingdom
SAMS RESEARCH SERVICES LIMITED, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG, Germany
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN, Norway
NORCE NORWEGIAN RESEARCH CENTRE AS, Norway
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, United States
THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, United Kingdom
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, United States
WORLD OCEAN COUNCIL EUROPE, France
FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA, Spain
CLIMATE-KIC APS, Denmark
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH, Ireland
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE, United Kingdom
Source of funding
Horizon 2020
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Published in Climate-ADAPT: Nov 9, 2020
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