Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves

Omid Mazdiyasni; Amir AghaKouchak; Steven J. Davis; Shahrbanou Madadgar; Ali Mehran; Elisa Ragno; Mojtaba Sadegh; Ashmita Sengupta; Subimal Ghosh; C. T. Dhanya; Mohsen Niknejad

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700066

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Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves

View ORCID ProfileOmid Mazdiyasni¹,
Amir AghaKouchak¹,*,
Steven J. Davis²,
Shahrbanou Madadgar¹,
Ali Mehran¹,³,
Elisa Ragno¹,
Mojtaba Sadegh¹,⁴,
View ORCID ProfileAshmita Sengupta⁵,
View ORCID ProfileSubimal Ghosh⁶,
View ORCID ProfileC. T. Dhanya⁷ and
Mohsen Niknejad¹

¹Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
²Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
³Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
⁴Department of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
⁵Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, 3535 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, USA.
⁶Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India.
⁷Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110016, India.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: amir.a{at}uci.edu

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Science Advances 07 Jun 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 6, e1700066
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700066

Omid Mazdiyasni

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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Amir AghaKouchak

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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For correspondence: amir.a@uci.edu

Steven J. Davis

2Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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Shahrbanou Madadgar

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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Ali Mehran

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

3Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

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Elisa Ragno

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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Mojtaba Sadegh

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

4Department of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.

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Ashmita Sengupta

5Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, 3535 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, USA.

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Subimal Ghosh

6Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India.

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C. T. Dhanya

7Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110016, India.

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Mohsen Niknejad

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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