README.md

HeatStress

What is HeatStress?

HeatStress is a R package for the calculation of heat stress indices. It has been developed in the framework of the Horizon2020 HEAT-SHIELD project.

DOI

Installation

The recommended procedure for installing the package is using the devtools package.

devtools::install_github("anacv/HeatStress")

A list of all available indices and the atomic functions calculating them is printed on screen with:

library(HeatStress)
indexShow()

Reference and further information

DOI

This package was used in the development of climate change scenarios of heat stress, in the following publications: Casanueva et al. 2019. Climate projections of a multi-variate heat stress index: the role of downscaling and bias correction, Geoscientific Model Development, https://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/gmd-2018-294/ Casanueva et al. 2019. Escalating environmental heat exposure – a future threat for the European workforce, Regional Environmental Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01625-6



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