Assessing the Importance of Spatial Scale in Climate‐Health Models: The Effect of Temperature on Emergency Department Visits in Richmond, Virginia
Truc‐Ly Le‐Huynh, Wendy M. Novicoff, Pamela B. DeGuzman, Robert E. Davis · 2026
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Truc-Ly Le-Huynh and co-authors ask whether fine grained weather data change climate health findings in a 2026 study of Richmond, Virginia. Most studies read exposure from one good weather station. The team compared station data with a gridded reanalysis product for emergency department visits over several years. Statistical models linked temperature to visits at four nested spatial scales.
Results were highly consistent across scales and sources. The two data sets had similar distributions, and location specific and pooled estimates agreed strongly. The gridded product gave slightly softer cold effects and slightly stronger heat effects at the extremes, but no marked differences overall. The authors suggest the region's even climate keeps local variation inside model uncertainty. They caution that patchier climates may behave differently.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Truc‐Ly Le‐Huynh, Wendy M. Novicoff, Pamela B. DeGuzman, Robert E. Davis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |