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Severe Heat Wave during May 2015 in Andhra Pradesh


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1 Department of Geography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India
2 Department of Geo-Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India
 

Summer heat waves are increasing in intensity during recent years, leading to excess human mortality. In India, 14,129 heat-wave deaths occurred during 1979- 2013. The heat waves largely occur in central India, but have intensified in the east coast region, especially in Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Odisha during the last two decades.
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Authors

B. Hema Malini
Department of Geography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India
K. Lalitha
Department of Geo-Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India
M. Ganga Raju
Department of Geography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India
Kakani Nageswara Rao
Department of Geo-Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India

Abstract


Summer heat waves are increasing in intensity during recent years, leading to excess human mortality. In India, 14,129 heat-wave deaths occurred during 1979- 2013. The heat waves largely occur in central India, but have intensified in the east coast region, especially in Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Odisha during the last two decades.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv110%2Fi10%2F1893-1894