Associations between elevated atmospheric temperature and human mortality: a critical review of the literature

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  2009

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  Climatic Change

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

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  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/S10584-008-9441-X
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