A5015938495- Climate variability and models
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Global Health Care Issues
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health disparities and outcomes
Fudan University
2019-2025
NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
2023
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2016-2022
Duke University
2015-2020
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
2013-2017
Planetary Science Institute
2016
Peking University
2000-2015
Abstract Using 40 countries’ subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature relationships and extrapolate them to countries without data today into a future with climate change. We uncover U-shaped relationship where extre6me cold hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for the elderly. Critically, this is flattened by higher incomes adaptation local climate. revealed-preference approach recover unobserved costs, that mean global in risk due change, accounting...
Coastal tidal wetlands produce and accumulate significant amounts of organic carbon (C) that help to mitigate climate change. However, previous data limitations have prevented a robust evaluation the global rates mechanisms driving C accumulation. Here, we go beyond recent soil stock estimates reveal wetland accumulation predict changes under relative sea level rise, temperature precipitation. We use from literature study sites our new observations spanning wide latitudinal gradients 20...
Abstract Heat stress harms human health, agriculture, the economy, and environment more broadly. Exposure to heat is increasing with rising global temperatures. While most studies assessing future have focused on surface air temperature, compound extremes of humidity are key drivers stress. Here, we use atmospheric reanalysis data a large initial-condition ensemble climate model simulations evaluate changes in daily heat-humidity as function global-mean temperature (GSAT). The changing...
The literature on the costs of climate change often draws a link between climatic 'tipping points' and large economic shocks, frequently called 'catastrophes'. use phrase in this context can be misleading. In popular social scientific discourse, involve abrupt state changes. For some points,' commitment to may occur abruptly, but itself rate-limited take centuries or longer realize. Additionally, connection losses is tenuous, though emerging empirical process-model-based tools provide...
Climate change threatens global food systems, but the extent to which adaptation will reduce losses remains unknown. Here, we empirically estimate net impact of producer adaptations around world using longitudinal data on six staple crops spanning 12,658 sub-national units, capturing two-thirds crop calories. We project that and income growth nearly halve at end-of-century, substantial residual remain for all staples except rice. Global damages are dominated by modern-day breadbaskets...
Abstract Air pollution is estimated to contribute approximately 7 million premature deaths, of which around 4.5 deaths are linked ambient (outdoor) air pollution. The attributed rank the highest in Asian region, and thus, implementation stricter World Health Organization (WHO) Global Quality Guidelines (AQGs) released on 22 September 2021 will generate greatest health benefits region. Here we present some key messages recommendations at national, regional, global levels promote strategies...
Increased attention has been paid to humid-heat extremes as they are projected increase in both frequency and intensity. However, it remains unclear how compound of heat humidity affects morbidity when the climate is continue warming future, particular for a megacity with large population. We chose Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index metric characterize exposure. The historical associations between daily outpatient visits mean WBGT was established using Distributed Lag Non-linear Model...
Background Heatwaves kill more people than floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes combined disproportionally affect older persons those with chronic conditions. Commonly used medications for conditions, e.g., diuretics, antipsychotics disrupt thermoregulation or fluid/electrolyte balance may sensitive patients to heat. However, the effect of heat-sensitizing their interactions heatwaves are not well-quantified. We evaluated effects potentially in vulnerable patients. Methods US Medicare data...
Regional climate changes have adverse socioeconomic impacts, especially in a megacity. As case study, we investigate the regional of Chengdu, most densely populated cities western China. In past 40 years, Chengdu underwent warming and less humid trends over entire region. Consistently, number annual fog days decreased by −20.5 days/10 years on average, frequency hot extremes increased. The contributions to from global urbanization are investigated, separately. Based 21 simulations CMIP6...
Abstract In the early summer (late June–early July) of 2021, a prolonged and extremely high temperature event was observed in Northwest United States Southwest Canada. this study, connection found between subseasonal variations East Asian monsoon system anomalous heat dome over western North America (WNA). Around 2–3 pentads prior to period maximum heat, northward‐propagating rain belt abnormally intensified jet stream Asia excited Rossby wave train, causing high‐pressure anomaly WNA that...
Abstract Humid heat extremes, taking account of both temperature and humidity, have adverse impacts on society, particularly human health. It has been suggested that quasi-stationary waves (QSWs) with anomalously high amplitudes contribute to the occurrence near-surface precipitation extremes in midlatitudes Northern Hemisphere. However, little attention paid linkages between amplified QSWs humid extremes. Using ERA5 dataset, we identify zonal wavenumbers 5–7 (Wave 5–7) summer months from...
Accumulating studies have suggested an important role of environmental factors (e.g. air pollutants) on the occurrence and development coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Evidence concerning relationship greenness COVID-19 is still limited. This study aimed to assess association between incidence in 266 Chinese cities. A total 12,377 confirmed cases were identified through February 29th, 2020. We used average normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) during January 2020 from MOD13A2...
Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature relationships and extrapolate them to countries without data today into a future with climate change. We uncover U-shaped relationship where extreme cold hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for the elderly. Critically, this is flattened by both higher incomes adaptation local climate. revealed preference approach recover unobserved costs, that mean global in risk due change, accounting...
During the summer of 2024, a record-breaking heatwave occurred in Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, posed widespread health and socio-economic challenges for local residents. Based on Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with Urban Canopy Model (UCM) observations from 3000 automatic meteorological stations, we assess heterogeneous contributions effects —particularly land-use changes (LU) anthropogenic heat emissions (AH) — to this extreme wave further extent heat-related...
Abstract The teleconnections of the wintertime North Pacific are examined from continuum perspective with self-organizing map (SOM) analysis. Daily ERA-Interim data for 1979–2011 period used. It is found that most can be grouped into several Pacific–North American (PNA)-like, western (WP)-like, and east (EP)-like SOM patterns. Each patterns has an e-folding time scale 7–10 days. WP-like undergo a decline in their frequency early to late winter, vice versa EP-like patterns, corresponding...
This paper develops the first globally comprehensive and empirically grounded estimates of worker disutility due to future temperature increases caused by climate change. Harmonizing daily worker-level data from seven countries representing nearly a third world's population, we evaluate causal effect on labor supply, recovering an inverted U-shaped relationship where extreme cold hot temperatures lead supply losses for workers in weather-exposed industries. We then develop micro-founded,...
Mangrove loss has reduced its carbon (C) sink function and ecosystem services. To effectively allocate climate finance for mangrove restoration, a thorough assessment of restoration potential is necessary. Here we show net service value (ESV) 29.2 billion USD ($) due to land changes in mangroves from 1996 2019. The estimated ESV 2019 amounts $894 yr-1, mainly provided by regulating provisioning services (57.4% 19.7%). Over the next two decades, project that would necessitate an investment...
Abstract The impacts of heat waves in a warming climate depend not only on changing temperatures but also humidity. Using 35 simulations from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble (CESM LENS), we investigate long‐term evolution joint distribution summer relative humidity (RH) and daily maximum temperature ( Tmax ) near four U.S. cities (New York City, Chicago, Phoenix, New Orleans) under high‐emissions Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5. We estimate conditional...