Daily and seasonal human mobility modulates temperature exposure in European cities.

ABSTRACT: Extreme temperatures pose a serious threat to human health, especially in urban areas where the majority of the world population is living. Temperature-related risks are exacerbated by urban-induced warming but existing exposure assessments rely on a static residential population, thus overlooking space-time changes in population density and their covariation with urban temperatures. Here we combine 1-km monthly daytime and nighttime population estimates for 80 European cities with existing high-resolution urban climate simulations to quantify the impact of daily and seasonal mobility on residents' exposure to heat and cold. Using city-specific exposure-response curves and the respective minimum mortality temperatures as thresholds to define hazardous conditions we calculated that, on dail

SUBMITTER: Lin GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12407427 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature