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Heat Wave
A heat wave is an extended time interval of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather. It is an extended period of above normal warm temperatures sources: Florida Hazards Watch; WMO
MunichRe: 2009 total number of destructive natural hazard events above the long-term average
29 Dec 2009, Munich Re
'...we look closely at a multitude of risks and how best to handle them. Risks that change in the course of time are especially hazardous. Climate change is just such a risk of change.' said Torsten Jeworrek, Munich Re Board member responsible for global reinsurance business...
- Major Risks2002
- Self-protective measures under difficult climate conditionsCivil Defence, Min of Interior
- Hazards, disasters and survival: support material for the television series2000, AGTA; EMA
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Adapting to climate change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union2010, WB
- Canadians at risk: our exposure to natural hazards2010, ICLR
- Trade and climate change2009, UNEP; UNWTO
- Global Climate Risk Index 2010Dec 2009, Germanwatch
- Europe: extreme temperature hazard mapJan 2004, ESPON
Number of heat-wave occured (reported)
| Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database |
External Online Resources on Heat Wave
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