Sentence examples for heat wave duration from inspiring English sources

Moreover, above a critical threshold of heat wave duration, soil microbial communities may have undergone a drastic biomass killing and restructuring associated with a shift in physiological traits.

Heat wave duration measured the heat wave's length in days.

In particular, heat exposure and heat wave duration showed different associations.

Other studies provided evidence of the importance of heat wave duration and intensity.

We refer to this variable as a heat wave duration variable (HWD).

We speculate that it is biologically plausible to differentiate effects from heat and heat wave duration.

Focusing on 1960-2010, they found that the concurrence of all combinations of drought, heat wave intensity, and heat wave durations "have increased substantially in the south, southeast, and parts of the western USA".

Counties in southern Florida have the longest average heat wave durations projected for the study area under both RCP scenarios.

Average heat wave durations estimated under the RCP8.5 scenario were almost 1 day longer than under the RCP4.5 scenario, regardless of the heat wave definition used (Table 3).

Previous epidemiologic studies of heat and daily mortality that have included Detroit have found that heat exposure on days 0 1 have been most relevant (e.g., Anderson and Bell 2009), although heat wave durations of at least 4 days may have an additional effect (e.g., Gasparrini and Armstrong 2010).

We estimated the effect from temperature intensity (linear effect) and the additional effect from heat waves (duration variable; linear effect) simultaneously in the model.