Articles | Volume 20, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3083-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3083-2020
Research article
 | 
16 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 16 Nov 2020

The contribution of air temperature and ozone to mortality rates during hot weather episodes in eight German cities during the years 2000 and 2017

Alexander Krug, Daniel Fenner, Hans-Guido Mücke, and Dieter Scherer

Related authors

Hectometric-scale modelling of the urban mixed layer evaluated with a dense LiDAR-ceilometer network
Russell H. Glazer, Sue Grimmond, Lewis Blunn, Daniel Fenner, Humphrey Lean, Andreas Christen, Will Morrison, and Dana Looschelders
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2064,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2064, 2025
Short summary
Modular approach to near-time data management for multi-city atmospheric environmental observation campaigns
Matthias Zeeman, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond, Daniel Fenner, William Morrison, Gregor Feigel, Markus Sulzer, and Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 13, 393–424, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-393-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-393-2024, 2024
Short summary
A hybrid data-driven approach to analyze the drivers of lake level dynamics
Márk Somogyvári, Dieter Scherer, Frederik Bart, Ute Fehrenbach, Akpona Okujeni, and Tobias Krueger
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 4331–4348, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4331-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4331-2024, 2024
Short summary
Atmospheric triggering conditions and climatic disposition of landslides in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at the beginning of the 21st century
Xun Wang, Marco Otto, and Dieter Scherer
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2125–2144, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2125-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2125-2021, 2021
Short summary

Cited articles

Analitis, A., Michelozzi, P., D'Ippoliti, D., De'Donato, F., Menne, B., Matthies, F., Atkinson, R. W., Iñiguez, C., Basagaña, X., Schneider, A., Lefranc, A., Paldy, A., Bisanti, L., and Katsouyanni, K.: Effects of Heat Waves on Mortality, Epidemiology, 25, 15–22, https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e31828ac01b, 2014. a, b
Analitis, A., de' Donato, F., Scortichini, M., Lanki, T., Basagana, X., Ballester, F., Astrom, C., Paldy, A., Pascal, M., Gasparrini, A., Michelozzi, P., and Katsouyanni, K.: Synergistic Effects of Ambient Temperature and Air Pollution on Health in Europe: Results from the PHASE Project, Int. J. Env. Res. Pub. He., 15, 1856, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15091856, 2018. a, b, c, d, e
an der Heiden, M., Muthers, S., Niemann, H., Buchholz, U., Grabenhenrich, L., and Matzarakis, A.: Schätzung hitzebedingter Todesfälle in Deutschland zwischen 2001 und 2015, Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 62, 571–579, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-019-02932-y, 2019. a
Anderson, B. G. and Bell, M. L.: Weather-Related Mortality: How Heat, Cold, and Heat Waves Affect Mortality in the United States, Epidemiology, 20, 205–213, https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e318190ee08, 2009. a, b, c, d
Anderson, G. B. and Bell, M. L.: Heat Waves in the United States: Mortality Risk during Heat Waves and Effect Modification by Heat Wave Characteristics in 43 U.S. Communities, Environ. Health Perspect., 119, 210–218, https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002313, 2011. a, b, c, d, e
Download
Short summary
This study investigates hot weather episodes in eight German cities which are statistically associated with increased mortality. Besides air temperature, ozone concentrations partly explain these mortality rates. The strength of the respective contributions of the two stressors varies across the cities. Results highlight that during hot weather episodes, not only high air temperature affects urban populations; concurrently high ozone concentrations also play an important role in public health.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint