Widespread heat stress will become the norm in a warming Southeast Asia
Sonali Manimaran, Dennis Wagenaar, Christine Nam, Indraneel Kasmalkar, Ludwig Lierhammer, Laurens M. Bouwer, David Lallemant · 2025
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Description
Southeast Asia's heat is crossing from discomfort into danger, and body based measures show it sooner than air temperature alone. Sonali Manimaran and six co-authors project heat stress across the region in 2025 at fine spatial and three hourly resolution, using two physiological indices and explicit population maps. Low and high emissions futures are compared against the past.
Even by mid century, weeks of life threatening heat multiply several fold, exposing tens of millions. Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia face six to nine severe hours a day in peak months. Under high emissions the far future turns catastrophic, with up to two hundred unsafe days a year. The authors press for adaptation now and mitigation as the cheaper mercy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sonali Manimaran, Dennis Wagenaar, Christine Nam, Indraneel Kasmalkar, Ludwig Lierhammer, Laurens M. Bouwer, David Lallemant |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |