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Projected change in the percentage of summer days classified as heatwave days between 1951-2000 and 2051-2100

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Prod-ID: DAT-256-en

Created 27 Jul 2021 Published 27 Jul 2021 Last modified 27 Jul 2021

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This dataset presents the projected changes in the percentage of summer days (May-September) classified as heatwaves days between the historical period (1951–2000) and the future period (2051–2100) in 571 European cities therefore indicating the projected future risks to human health.

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Scale of the data set:

1:100000

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Methodology:

Modelling on low, medium and high impact scenarios can be accessed at Guerreiro, S. B., et al., 2018, ‘Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities’ , Environmental Research Letters 13(3), p. 034009 (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaaad3).

Units:

Percentage change

Data sources

The analysis is based on 50 climate model projections from the 'Coupled Model
Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5)' under the RCP8.5 climate scenario to calculate Low, Medium and High Impact scenarios, which correspond to the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles of each hazard for each city.

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European Environment Agency (EEA)

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Geographic coverage

Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom