Identifying Heat Waves in Florida: Considerations of Missing Weather Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Using current climate models, regional-scale changes for Florida over the next 100 years are predicted to include warming over terrestrial areas and very likely increases in the number of high temperature extremes. No uniform definition of a heat wave exists. Most past research on heat waves has focused on evaluating the aftermath of known heat waves, with minimal consideration of missing exposure information.

Objectives

To identify and discuss methods of handling and imputing missing weather data and how those methods can affect identified periods of extreme heat in Florida.

Methods

In addition to ignoring missing data, temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal models are described and utilized to impute missing historical weather data from 1973 to 2012 from

SUBMITTER: Leary E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4664249 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature