Attribution of mortality to the urban heat island during heatwaves in the West Midlands, UK.

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Published in Environ Health on March 08, 2016

Authors

Clare Heaviside1,2, Sotiris Vardoulakis3,4, Xiao-Ming Cai5

Author Affiliations

1: Environmental Change Department, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England, Oxon, UK. clare.heaviside@phe.gov.uk.
2: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. clare.heaviside@phe.gov.uk.
3: Environmental Change Department, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England, Oxon, UK. sotiris.vardoulakis@phe.gov.uk.
4: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. sotiris.vardoulakis@phe.gov.uk.
5: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. x.cai@bham.ac.uk.

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