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The outdoor environment influences human beings differently. If it is too cold for the organism, that could cause frostbite, freezing and other dangerous health conditions. On the other hand, if it is too hot, the heat stress could become too high, and consequences such as heat stroke, fainting, etc. could emerge. In either case, the outdoor environment could become deadly for humans. The climate changes impose an adaptation of the human individuals to the current and the future thermal conditions. The current research aims to study the risk of extreme heat and cold thermal stress on the Balkan Peninsula and some adjacent territories. For that purpose, we performed numerical simulations with the regional climate model RegCM4 for the period from 1975 to 2005. The initial and boundary conditions were taken from the HadGEM2 Earth System Model. The simulations were performed on the supercomputer Avitohol of IICT—BAS. We studied the extreme thermal conditions in the cold and the warm seasons with two different biometeorological indexes. The first one describes how cold the human individual feels in low temperatures and windy environment. The second one describes how hot the human being feels in high temperatures and humid conditions. The simulation results for the influence of the current climate on human beings are demonstrated in the paper. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1007/978-3-030-55347-0_27 | HPC |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Vladimir Ivanov | 1 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Rilka Valcheva | 2 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Georgi Gadzhev | 3 | 13 | 6.65 |