ArticleTheoretical and applied climatology2022
Retrospection of heatwave and heat index.
Article in Theoretical and applied climatology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Biogeography of Stress: Graded and Threshold Phenological Responses in European Beech-Dominated Forests Under Disruptive Heatwaves.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Biological impacts of rising temperatures on maternal, fetal and newborn health: protocol for a cohort study (BIRTH-Cohort).BMJ open · 2026Article
- Intensification and spatial shifts of heatwave hotspot across India under climate and ENSO influences with health risk assessment.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Machine-learning framework for conditional estimation and scenario-based projection of the heat index for public health interventions.PloS one · 2026Article
- Causal link between humid heatwaves and ischemic heart disease: assessing hospitalizations and economic burden across 955 Chinese counties.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Heat Stroke Warning System Prototype for Athletes: A Pilot Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Excess mortality associated with extreme heat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2023.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal characterization of heatwave exposure across historically vulnerable communities.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Different explanations for surface and canopy urban heat island effects in relation to background climate.iScience · 2024Article
- Machine learning-based analysis and prediction of meteorological factors and urban heatstroke diseases.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Scorching Truth: Investigating the Impact of Heatwaves on Selangor's Elderly Hospitalisations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Detecting the Effect Size of Weather Conditions on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Analysis of two-decade meteorological and air quality trends in Rome (Italy).Theoretical and applied climatology · 2022Article
- Global warming and testis function: A challenging crosstalk in an equally challenging environmental scenario.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Heat waves in the Colombian Caribbean: A public health problem?Revista CuidarteArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The frequency and intensity of extreme events especially heat waves (HW) are growing all around the world which ultimately poses a serious threat to the health of individuals. To quantify the effects of extreme temperature, appropriate information, and the importance of HW and heat index (HI) are carefully discussed for different parts of the world. Varied definitions of the HW and HI formula proposed and used by different countries are carried out systematically continent-wise. Different studies highlighted the number of definitions of HW; however, mostly used Steadman's formulae, which was developed in the late 1970s, for the calculation of HI that uses surface air temperature and relative humidity as climatic fields. Since then, dramatic changes in climatic conditions have been observed as evident from the ERA5 datasets which need to be addressed; likewise, the definition of HW, which is modified by the researchers as per the geographic conditions. It is evident from the ERA5 data that the temperature has increased by 1-2 °C as compared to the 1980s. There is a threefold increase in the number of heatwave days over most of the continents in the last 40 years. This study will help the researcher community to understand the importance of HW and HI. Furthermore, it opens the scope to develop an equation based on the present scenario keeping in mind the basics of an index as considered by Steadman.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.