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SUMMARY:Tracking Compound Heat and Humidity Impacts - Chloe Brimicombe\, W
 egener Center\, University of Graz\, Austria
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DESCRIPTION:\nCompounds of high humidity and heat are deadly. With our cha
 nging climate an increasing proportion of the world’s land surface is be
 ing exposed to higher temperatures and humidity\, with this rise being fas
 ter in populated areas. One metric to measure heat stress\, a rise in body
  heat as the result of external environment and exertion is Wet Bulb Globe
  Temperature (WBGT) the International Organization’s occupational health
  metric. However\, Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is often not observed at a m
 eteorological station because of a key instrument – a globe thermometer 
 being expensive to purchase and in local cases often being stolen from sit
 es. This led to several approximations being developed\, with differing le
 vels of accuracy. In this talk\, I will discuss a new method developed for
  numerical weather prediction models to produce accurate WBGT measurements
 . I will then discuss gaps within literature for WBGT and biases that exis
 t within the literature. Before\, discussing how we are applying the new W
 BGT data to research such as heat related child mortality and our developm
 ents in comparing WBGT heatwaves to temperature heatwaves through a heatwa
 ve algorithm. Finally\, I will discuss how this WBGT data could be applied
  to energy systems and chances for future avenues of research.\n\nBio:\n\n
 Dr Chloe Brimicombe is a post-doctoral researcher in the Social Complexity
  and System Transformation Research Group at the Wegener Center\, Universi
 ty of Graz\, Austria and visiting fellow at the London School of Economic 
 and Public Policy. She is a Climate Scientist and Extreme Heat Researcher 
 focused on heat impacts such as those on pregnant women and children's hea
 lth. She previously helped to develop thermal comfort indices for  the Eur
 opean Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Numerical Weather Predicti
 on Products. 
LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zo
 om.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon 
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