ArticleInternational journal of biometeorology2022
Heat stress in Africa under high intensity climate change.
Article in International journal of biometeorology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Ischemic heart disease burden and healthcare system readiness across sub-Saharan Africa.Nature cardiovascular research · 2026Review
- Anthropogenic climate change drives rising global heat stress and its spatial inequality.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Daily rainfall variability controls humid heatwaves in the global tropics and subtropics.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Heat stress causes economic and welfare disparities across agroecological zones in Burkina Faso.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Impact of urban greening on population health in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Vitexin Regulates Heat Shock Protein Expression by Modulating ROS Levels Thereby Protecting against Heat-Stress-Induced Apoptosis.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Optimal heat stress metric for modelling heat-related mortality varies from country to country.International journal of climatology : a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
Extreme weather events are major causes of loss of life and damage infrastructure worldwide. High temperatures cause heat stress on humans, livestock, crops and infrastructure. Heat stress exposure is projected to increase with ongoing climate change. Extremes of temperature are common in Africa and infrastructure is often incapable of providing adequate cooling. We show how easily accessible cooling technology, such as evaporative coolers, prevent heat stress in historic timescales but are unsuitable as a solution under climate change. As temperatures increase, powered cooling, such as air conditioning, is necessary to prevent overheating. This will, in turn, increase demand on already stretched infrastructure. We use high temporal resolution climate model data to estimate the demand for cooling according to two metrics, firstly the apparent temperature and secondly the discomfort index. For each grid cell we calculate the heat stress value and the amount of cooling required to turn a heat stress event into a non heat stress event. We show the increase in demand for cooling in Africa is non uniform and that equatorial countries are exposed to higher heat stress than higher latitude countries. We further show that evaporative coolers are less effective in tropical regions than in the extra tropics. Finally, we show that neither low nor high efficiency coolers are sufficient to return Africa to current levels of heat stress under climate change.
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