Translating climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with thermal stress (ClimApp)
(2021) Asia Pacific Climate Service Workshop 2021 (APCSW 2021)- Abstract
- Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Heat waves and cold spells pose a threat to human health, well-being and productivity. The impact of thermal stress depends on not only climate factors, but also individual factors and vulnerability. Current heat wave early warning systems are mainly based on air temperature. It is necessary to extend and improve current climate services by taking into account individual factors and all thermal climate variables to provide personalized heat-health early warnings to increase thermal resilience.
ClimApp is smartphone app developed based on a European project to translate climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with heat and... (More) - Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Heat waves and cold spells pose a threat to human health, well-being and productivity. The impact of thermal stress depends on not only climate factors, but also individual factors and vulnerability. Current heat wave early warning systems are mainly based on air temperature. It is necessary to extend and improve current climate services by taking into account individual factors and all thermal climate variables to provide personalized heat-health early warnings to increase thermal resilience.
ClimApp is smartphone app developed based on a European project to translate climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with heat and cold stress. The app incorporated more than 10 relevant parameters that determine the heat exchange between human body and the environment. Weather forecast data are automatically extracted from user’s local weather forecast through GPS, as inputs into four human thermal models for hot, moderate and cold environments. The app works globally in a temperature range from -50 to +50 °C. ClimApp is publicly available for Android and iPhone in 10 languages. The App provides personalized health risk warnings and advice for individuals, vulnerable groups and organizations to support decision-making to increase adaptation capacity when extreme weather events. ClimApp was awarded by The World Meteorological Organization for Originality and Innovation. (Less)
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- Gao, Chuansi LU
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- 2021-10
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- Contribution to conference
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- published
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- conference name
- Asia Pacific Climate Service Workshop 2021 (APCSW 2021)
- conference location
- Taipei, Taiwan
- conference dates
- 2021-10-21 - 2021-10-22
- project
- Translating climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with thermal climate stress
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- English
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abstract = {{Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Heat waves and cold spells pose a threat to human health, well-being and productivity. The impact of thermal stress depends on not only climate factors, but also individual factors and vulnerability. Current heat wave early warning systems are mainly based on air temperature. It is necessary to extend and improve current climate services by taking into account individual factors and all thermal climate variables to provide personalized heat-health early warnings to increase thermal resilience. <br/><br/>ClimApp is smartphone app developed based on a European project to translate climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with heat and cold stress. The app incorporated more than 10 relevant parameters that determine the heat exchange between human body and the environment. Weather forecast data are automatically extracted from user’s local weather forecast through GPS, as inputs into four human thermal models for hot, moderate and cold environments. The app works globally in a temperature range from -50 to +50 °C. ClimApp is publicly available for Android and iPhone in 10 languages. The App provides personalized health risk warnings and advice for individuals, vulnerable groups and organizations to support decision-making to increase adaptation capacity when extreme weather events. ClimApp was awarded by The World Meteorological Organization for Originality and Innovation.}},
author = {{Gao, Chuansi}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Translating climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with thermal stress (ClimApp)}},
year = {{2021}},
}