Climate Exchange

284 / 288

[ ] 285
III. Health
Informing decision-making in health using seasonal climate outlooks
1 The PI-CPP project was managed by Janita Pahalad and the pilot projects were
implemented by Dr Yahya Abawi with the assistance of Drs Sunil Dutta, Simon White
and David McClymont.
2. UNDP Millennium Development Goals #6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
3. Roll Back Malaria Cabinet Project, Malaria Early Warning Systems – A framework
for Field Research in Africa, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001.
4. Better surveillance key to malaria early warning systems
opinions/better-surveillance-key-to-malaria-early-warning-s.html
5. ‘Success in the Solomon Islands’, World Health, May 1998.
6. World Malaria Report 2011.
7. Millennium Development Goals Progress Report For Solomon Islands 2010, UNDP
8. COMP partner countries are the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea,
Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The Heat Health Warning System as an example of climate services at the
Deutscher Wetterdienst
1. IPCC, 2012: ‘Summary for Policymakers’. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme
Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros,
T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K.
Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working
Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-19.
2. The Federal Government, 2008: German Strategy for Adaptation to climate Change
adopted by the German federal cabinet on 17th December 2008
english/climate/downloads/doc/42841.php
3. Die Bundesregierung, 2011: Aktionsplan Anpassung der Deutschen
Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel – vom Bundeskabinett am 31. August 2011
beschlossen (German only).
klimawandel_bf.pdf
4. Koppe, 2009: ‘The Heat Health Warning System of the German Meteorological
Service’. In UMID – UmweltMedizinischerInformationsDienst, No. 3/2009, ISSN
1862-4111(Print), ISSN 1862-4189 (Internet)
5. Koppe, C. and Jendritzky, G. (2004): Die Auswirkungen der Hitzewelle 2003 auf
die Mortalität in Baden-Württemberg [Impacts of the 2003 heat wave on mortality in
Baden- Württemberg], Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Social Affairs], Stuttgart.
6. Becker, Paul; Bucher, Klaus; Jendritzky, Gerd; Koppe, Christina, 2005: ‘Germany’s
Heat-Health Warning System’. Annalen der Meteorologie 41, p.279-281.
7. Koppe, Christina; Jendritzky, Gerd, 2005: ‘Inclusion of short-term adaptation to
thermal stresses in a heat load warning procedure’. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol.
14, No. 2, 271-278 (April 2005)
8. Jendritzky G (1990): ‘Methodik zur räumlichen Bewertung der thermischen
Komponente im Bioklima des Menschen – Fortgeschriebenes Klima-Michel- Modell’.
Beitr.Akademie f. Raumforschung u. Landesplanung 114:7-69.
Staiger, Henning; Laschewski, Gudrun; Grätz, Angelika; 2012: ‘The perceived temperature
– a versatile index for the assessment of the human thermal environment. Part A: scientific
basics’. International Journal of biometeorology, Volume 56, Number 1, Pages 165-176
9. Federal Law Gazette, 2009: ‘Law on the Deutscher Wetterdienst’, Federal Law
Gazette, p. 2424. §4(1)1
10. Ibid, §6(2)
11. Früh, B. et. al, 2011: ‘Estimation of Climate-Change Impacts on the Urban Heat
Load Using an UrbanClimate Model and Regional Climate Projections’. Journal of
Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 50, DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2377.1
Früh, Barbara ; Koßmann, Meinolf ; Roos, Marita (Hrsg.: Deutscher Wetterdienst):
‘Frankfurt am Main im Klimawandel – Eine Untersuchung zur städtischen
Wärmebelastung’. Offenbach am Main: Selbstverlag des Deutschen Wetterdienstes,
2011.(Berichte des Deutschen Wetterdienstes ; 237) ISBN 978-3-88148-453-4 http://
:nbn:de:101:1-201106095249
Further reading:
Hübler, Michael, and Klepper, Gernot, 2007: Kosten desKlimawandels - Die Wirkung
steigender Temperaturen aufGesundheit und Leistungsfähigkeit. Herausgeber: WWF
Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main
Klimawandels_Gesundheitsstudie.pdf
Koppe, Christina, 2005: Gesundheitsrelevante Bewertung von thermischer Belastung
unter Berücksichtigung der kurzfristigen Anpassung der Bevölkerung an die lokalen
Witterungsverhältnisse. Berichte des Deutschen Wetterdienstes 226. Offenbach am Main.
World Health Organization, 2007: Improving Public Health Responses to Extreme
Weather/ Heat-Waves – EuroHEAT. Meeting Report, Bonn, Germany, 22-23 March, 2007
Climate implications of atmospheric warming due to aerosol black carbon over the
Indian region
1. Satheesh, S.K., Moorthy, K.K., Babu, S.S., V. Vinoj and C.B.S.Dutt, ‘Climate
implications of large warming by elevated aerosol over India’, Geophysical Research
Letters, 35, L19809, doi: 10.1029/2008GL034944, 2008.
2. Ackerman, A .S., Toon, O. B., Stevens, D. E., Heymsfield, A. J., Ramanathan, V.,
Welton, E. J., ‘Reduction of tropical cloudiness by soot’, Science, 288, 1042-1047, 2000.
3. Menon, S., Hansen, J., Nazarenko, L., and Luo, Y. ‘Climate effects of black carbon
aerosols in china and India’. Science, 297(5590), 2250-2253, 2002.
Ramanathan, V., et al., 2005. ‘Atmospheric brown clouds: Impacts on South Asian
climate and hydrological cycle’, Proc. of National Academy of Sciences. U.S.A., 102,
5326-5333, 2005.
4. Lau, K.-M., et al., ‘Asian summer monsoon anomalies induced by aerosol direct
forcing: The role of the Tibetan Plateau’. Climate Dynamics, 26, 855–864, 2006.
5. Chameides et. al., ‘Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional
haze on agriculture: An opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through
emission controls?’, Proc. of National Academy of Sciences, 96, 13626-13633, 1999.
6. E.g. Nair, V. S., F. Solmon, F. Giorgi, L. Mariotti, S. S. Babu, and K. K. Moorthy,
‘Simulation of South Asian aerosols for regional climate studies’, Journal of
Geophysical Research., 117, D04209, doi:10.1029/2011JD016711, 2012.
7. Babu, S.S. and Moorthy, K.K., ‘Anthropogenic impact on aerosol Black Carbon
mass concentration at a Tropical coastal station: A case Study’, Current Science, 81,
1208-1214, 2001.
Babu, S.S. and Moorthy, K.K.,’ Aerosol Black Carbon over a Tropical Coastal
Station in India’, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(23), 2098, 13-1 to 13-4,
doi:10.1029/2002GL015662, 2002
8. Babu, S.S., S.K. Satheesh and Moorthy, K.K., ‘Aerosol Radiative forcing due to
Enhanced Black carbon at an urban site in India’, Geophysical Research Letters,
29(18), 10.1029/ 2002GL015179, 27-1 to 27-4, 2002
9. Moorthy, K.K., Babu, S.S., S. V. S. Kumar, P. K. Gupta, and B. S. Gera,
‘Altitude profiles of aerosol BC, derived from aircraft measurements over an
inland urban location in India’, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L22103, doi:
10.1029/2004GL021336, 2004
Ganguly D., et al., ‘Single scattering albedo of aerosols over the central India: Implications for
the regional aerosol radiative forcing’, Geophysical Research Letters., 32, L18803, 2005.
Moorthy, K.K, Babu, S.S., K.V.S Badarinath , S. V. S. Kumar, T.R. Kiranchand and Y.
N. Ahmed, ‘Latitudinal Distribution of Aerosol Black Carbon and its mass fraction to
composite aerosols over peninsular India during winter season’, Geophysical Research
Letters, 34, L08802, doi:10.1029/2006GL029150, 2007.
10. Nair, V.S, Moorthy, K.K, D. P. Alappattu, P. K. Kunhikrishnan, S. George, P. Nair,
Babu, S.S., B. Abish, S.K. Satheesh, S. N. Tripathi, K. Niranjan, B L Madhavan, V
Srikant, C B S Dutt, K.V.S. Badrinath, and R Ramakrishna Reddy, ‘Wintertime aerosol
characteristics over the Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP): Impacts of local boundary layer
processes and long-range transport’, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D13205,
doi: 10.1029/2006JD008099, 2007
Niranjan, K., et al., ‘Aerosol physical properties and Radiative forcing at the outflow
region from the Indo-Gangetic plains during typical clear and hazy periods of
wintertime’, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L19805, 2007.
11. Ram, K., M. M. Sarin, and S. N. Tripathi, ‘A 1 year record of carbonaceous aerosols from
an urban site in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Characterization, sources, and temporal variability’,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D24313, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014188, 2010.
12. Babu, S.S., Moorthy, K.K., and S.K. Satheesh, ‘Aerosol Black Carbon over Arabian
Sea during Inter Monsoon and Summer Monsoon Season’s, Geophysical Research
Letters, Vol.31, L06104, doi10.1029/2003GL018716, 2004.
13. Moorthy, K. K., V. S. Nair, S. S. Babu, and S. K. Satheesh, ‘Spatial and vertical
heterogeneities in aerosol properties over oceanic regions around India: Implications for
radiative forcing’, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 135, 2131–2145,
doi:10.1002/qj.525, 2009.
Babu, S. S., M. M. Gogoi, V. H. A. Kumar, V. S. Nair, and K. K. Moorthy, ‘Radiative
properties of Bay of Bengal aerosols: Spatial distinctiveness and source impacts’,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D06213, doi:10.1029/2011JD017355, 2012.
14. Moorthy, K. K., et al., ‘Wintertime spatial characteristics of boundary layer
aerosols over peninsular India’, Journal of Geophysical Research., 110, D08207,
doi:10.1029/2004JD005520, 2005.
15. Babu, S.S., S. K. Satheesh, Moorthy, K.K., C. B. S. Dutt, V.S. Nair, D. P Alappattu
and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, ‘Aircraft Measurements of Aerosol Black carbon from a
coastal location in the north-east part of peninsular India during ICARB’, Journal of
Earth System Science, Vol.117,S1,263-271, 2008.
16. Satheesh et al., 2008 op cit.
17. Satheesh et al., 2008 op cit.
18. Babu, S.S., K. K. Moorthy, R. K. Manchanda, P. R. Sinha , S. K. Satheesh,
D. P. Vajja, S. Srinivasan, V. H. A. Kumar, ‘Free tropospheric black carbon
aerosol measurements using high altitude balloon: Do BC layers build ‘their
own homes’ up in the atmosphere?’, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L08803,
doi:10.1029/2011GL046654, 2011.
19. Menon, S., D. Koch, G. Beig, S. Sahu, J. Fasullo, and D. Orlikowski, ‘Black carbon
aerosols and the third polar ice cap’, Atmospheric Chemistry Physics., 10, 4559–
4571, doi:10.5194/acp-10-4559-2010, 2010.
20. Babu, S. S., et al., ‘High altitude (~ 4520 m amsl) measurements of
black carbon aerosols over western trans-Himalayas: Seasonal heterogeneity
and source apportionment’, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D24201,
doi:10.1029/2011JD016722, 2011.
Further reading:
Beegum, S. N., Moorthy, K.K., Babu, S.S., S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, K.V.S. Badarinath,
P.D. Safai, P.C.S. Devara, Sacchidanand Singh, Vinod, U.C. Dumka, P. Pant,
‘Spatial distribution of aerosol black carbon over India during pre-monsoon season’,
Atmospheric Environment 43, 1071–1078, 2009.
Ming, J., Xiao, C., Cachier, H., Qin, D., Qin, X, Li, Z., Pu, J., ‘Black Carbon (BC) in
the snow of glaciers in west China and its potential effects on albedos’, Atmospheric
Research, 92, 114–123, 2009.
Nair, V. S., Babu, S.S. and Moorthy, K.K., ‘Aerosol characteristics in the marine
Notes and References