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The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

Science advances, 2020-05, Vol.6 (19), p.eaaw1838 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). ;Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). 2020 The Authors ;ISSN: 2375-2548 ;EISSN: 2375-2548 ;DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1838 ;PMID: 32494693

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  • Title:
    The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance
  • Author: Raymond, Colin ; Matthews, Tom ; Horton, Radley M
  • Subjects: Climatology ; SciAdv r-articles
  • Is Part Of: Science advances, 2020-05, Vol.6 (19), p.eaaw1838
  • Description: Humans' ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have serious health and productivity impacts. Climate models project the first 35°C TW occurrences by the mid-21st century. However, a comprehensive evaluation of weather station data shows that some coastal subtropical locations have already reported a TW of 35°C and that extreme humid heat overall has more than doubled in frequency since 1979. Recent exceedances of 35°C in global maximum sea surface temperature provide further support for the validity of these dangerously high TW values. We find the most extreme humid heat is highly localized in both space and time and is correspondingly substantially underestimated in reanalysis products. Our findings thus underscore the serious challenge posed by humid heat that is more intense than previously reported and increasingly severe.
  • Publisher: United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2375-2548
    EISSN: 2375-2548
    DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1838
    PMID: 32494693
  • Source: Directory of Open Access Journals
    PubMed Central（OA）
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