Finding The Right Thresholds To Trigger Action In Heat Wave Early Warning Systems In Spain
Organization: World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Year: 2018
Published in:
WHO/WMO. (2018) Climate Services forHealth: Improving public health decision-making in a new climate. Eds.J.Shumake-Guillemot and L.Fernandez-Montoya. Geneva.
In Spain, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has been successful in using weather prediction models to forecast short- and medium-range extreme temperatures, and an early warning system (Meteolerta) has been implemented in cooperation with European EUMETNET member countries (MeteoAlarm).