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Relationships between sudden weather changes in summer and mortality in the Czech Republic, 1986–2005

SYSNO ASEP	0351227
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Relationships between sudden weather changes in summer and mortality in the Czech Republic, 1986–2005
Author(s)	Plavcová, Eva (UFA-U)_{RID, ORCID} Kyselý, Jan (UFA-U)_{RID, ORCID}
Source Title	International Journal of Biometeorology. - : Springer - ISSN 0020-7128 Roč. 54, č. 5 (2010), s. 539-551
Number of pages	13 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	DE - Germany
Keywords	Mortality ; Sudden change ; Air temperature ; Air pressure ; Atmospheric front ; Central Europe
Subject RIV	DG - Athmosphere Sciences, Meteorology
R&D Projects	GA205/07/1254 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
CEZ	AV0Z30420517 - UFA-U, BC-A (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000281087800007
EID SCOPUS	77955851215
DOI	10.1007/s00484-010-0303-7
Annotation	The study examines relations between sudden changes in weather conditions in summer, represented by (i) sudden air temperature changes, (ii) sudden atmospheric pressure changes, and (iii) passages of strong atmospheric fronts, and variations in daily mortality in the population of the Czech Republic. The events are selected from data covering 1986-2005 and compared with the database of daily excess all-cause mortality. We find a significant increase of mortality after large temperature increases and on days of large pressure drops, and a decrease of mortality after large temperature drops, pressure increases, and passages of strong cold fronts. The mortality effects are usually more pronounced in the age group 70 years and more. The impacts associated with large negative changes of pressure are statistically independent of the effects of temperature; the corresponding dummy variable is found to be a significant predictor in the ARIMA model for relative deviations of mortality.
Workplace	Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Contact	Kateřina Adamovičová, adamovicova@ufa.cas.cz, Tel.: 272 016 012 ; Kateřina Potužníková, kaca@ufa.cas.cz, Tel.: 272 016 019
Year of Publishing	2011

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