[HTML][HTML] The extreme heat wave of July–August 2021 in the Athens urban area (Greece): Atmospheric and human-biometeorological analysis exploiting ultra-high …

C Giannaros, I Agathangelidis, G Papavasileiou… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Greece was affected by a prolonged and extreme heat wave (HW) event (July 28–August
05) during the abnormally hot summer of 2021, with the maximum temperature in Athens …

Spatio-temporal analysis of heatwaves characteristics in Greece from 1950 to 2020

E Galanaki, C Giannaros, V Kotroni, K Lagouvardos… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heatwave events are of major concern in the global context, since they can significantly
impact ecosystems, economies and societies. For this reason, more detailed analyses of the …

Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change

HA Lambrechts, RDH Sooijs… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Background Temperatures and extreme weather events in Northwestern Europe are
expected to increase due to climate change. As a result, longer and more intense water …

[HTML][HTML] A thermo-physiologically consistent approach for studying the heat-health nexus with hierarchical generalized additive modelling: Application in Athens urban …

C Giannaros, T Economou, D Parliari, E Galanaki… - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
The significance of the thermo-physiological determinants of heat-related deaths has been
recognized since antiquity. Still, the impact of heat on human health in the modern era is …

Short-term effects of apparent temperature on cause-specific mortality in the Urban Area of Thessaloniki, Greece

D Parliari, S Cheristanidis, C Giannaros, SC Keppas… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although there is a growing interest in the association between ambient temperatures and
mortality, little evidence is available for Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece. In …

Hourly values of an advanced human-biometeorological index for diverse populations from 1991 to 2020 in Greece

C Giannaros, I Agathangelidis, E Galanaki, C Cartalis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Existing assessments of the thermal-related impact of the environment on humans are often
limited by the use of data that are not representative of the population exposure and/or not …

Exploring the ability of the WRF-ARW atmospheric model to simulate different meteorological conditions in Greece

G Emmanouil, D Vlachogiannis, A Sfetsos - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies on climate change reveal as its main consequence the mean global temperature
rise, as well as the increase of extreme weather events frequency and intensity. The latter …

Validating the copernicus european regional reanalysis (cerra) dataset for human-biometeorological applications

E Galanaki, C Giannaros, I Agathangelidis… - Environmental …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, a considerable body of research has demonstrated the suitability of global
and regional reanalysis data for human-biometeorological applications. These applications …

Assessing the sensitivity of land-atmosphere coupling strength to boundary and surface layer parameters in the WRF model over Amazon

C Wang, Y Qian, Q Duan, M Huang, LK Berg… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Modeling tools can be used to diagnose regional land-atmosphere (LA) coupling strength in
the absence of sufficient observations, but subject to uncertainties associated with …

Evaluation of the WRF physics ensemble using a multivariable integrated evaluation approach over the Haihe river basin in northern China

D Dai, L Chen, Z Ma, Z Xu - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
A crucial step in the application of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to
regional climate research is the selection of the proper combinations of physical …