SYNOPTIC LAB RESEARCH
Air Mass Monitoring and Classification
About the Spatial Synoptic Classification (click onto "SSC News" to get the latest version)
NEW Perspectives on Synoptic Classification
Detecting Synoptic Warming Trends across US Midwest
The SSC: a Decade of Climate–Health Research
Initial Spatial Synoptic Classification Development
A New Spatial Synoptic Classification (SSC)
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Cooling Our Cities: Reducing the Heat-Health Problem
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NEW Increasing Tree Cover and High-Albedo Surfaces Reduces Heat-Related ER Visits in Los Angeles, CA
NEW Decreasing Heat Impacts and Mortality in Los Angeles
NEW Building Climate Resilience Through Urban Greening
NEW Forest Service Webinar: Urban Greening and Cooling to Reduce Mortality
Potential Impact of Cool Roof Technologies in Boston and Chicago
Heat Exposure Reduction Implementing Heat Mitigation Strategies in L.A.
Climate Resilience through Cooling in Los Angeles: LAUCC Final Report
Cool Cities Solutions Research at the Synoptic Climatology Lab
Heat Island Reduction Strategies in the District of Columbia
Climate Change Research
NEW Trends in Synoptic Heat Events in Minnesota
UM Special Report: Impact of Climate on Health
Climate Change and Heat Deaths: Newest Estimates
Heat Vulnerability in California: Projecting Heat Events
Heat Vulnerability in California: Future Heat-Related Mortality
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Ongoing Climate and Health Research
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NEW Heat and mortality in Los Angeles during Winter
NEW Recent Trends in Heat Related Mortality in the US
NEW Arsht-Rockefeller: How to Beat the Extreme Heat
NEW Our Lab's Contribution to the Wisconsin Heat Health Network
Improving Heat/Health Outcomes with Science-Based Policy
Weather and Air Pollution in Canadian Cities
Progress in Reducing Heat Related Mortality in the U.S.
Recent Trends in Heat-Related Mortality
Analog European Heat Waves For U.S. Cities To Analyze Heat-Related Mortality
Heat and Mortality Demographic Sensitivities in Los Angeles
Heat Stress Index - A New Relative Climatological Index
EPA Heat Guidebook, Co-Developed by our Lab
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Heat Health Warning Systems (HHWS)
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NEW Greece Heat Categorization System
NEW University of Wisconsin Grad Students Work on Heat Health Warnings
NEW University of Wisconsin Weston Roundtable Presentation
NEW Research Highlighted in Biometeorology Bulletin
WMO Guidance on Heat Warning Systems: Our Lab’s Contributions
Development of Heat/Health Systems
Evaluating the Perceived Risk of Heat by the Public
Heat Watch-Warning Systems: Benefits
Operational Aspects of the Shanghai System
Italian National System: Implementation and Results from Summer, 2003
How our heat/health warning systems operate
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Bioclimatological Research: Plants, Animals, Humans and Disease
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The New Cold Advisory for Newborn Livestock Factsheet (CANL)
CANL Becomes Operational for the National Weather Service
The Notion of Applied Biometeorology
Interpretation of Gypsy Moth Frontal Advance
Meteorological Influences on the Dispersion of Pine Blister Rust
Synoptic Evaluation of Dispersal of White Pine Blister Rust
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International Projects
NEW Effects of heat waves on 14 Korean cities using synoptic approach
WMO Assessment of Weather Mortality Extremes
Analog European heat waves for Korean cities to analyze heat/mortality
Cold Spell Mortality in Korean Cities
Climate change impacts on mortality in Korean cities
Heat and Health Issues in the Russian Far East: Joint Russian/US Collaboration
Urban Heat Island and Human Health in Shanghai
International Society of Biometeorology
NEW International Society of Biometeorology: Climate and Health Commission