Y T Eunice Lo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6880919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y T Eunice Lo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y T Eunice |
| FAMILY NAME | Lo |
| SIGNATURE | LO Y T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7389-7272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Extreme heat impacts on daily life and adaptive behaviours captured through lived experience
So far, there has been little evidence of the impact of extreme heat on behaviour and wellbeing in daily life, beyond gross health metrics like hospital admissions and mortality. Data are needed to better understand the relative impact of a changing climate across life course strata and ultimately inform effective adaptation strategies. Using the UK September 2023 heatwave as a case study, we surveyed 3242 participants from the Avon longitudinal …
No detectable decrease in extreme cold-related mortality in Canada from Arctic sea ice loss
Arctic amplification (AA), the phenomenon by which Arctic surface temperatures are warming faster than the global average, may have significant unexplored impacts on temperature-related mortality in human populations across Canada. We explore the role of Arctic sea ice loss, a key driver of AA, in changing cold temperature extremes across Canada and their impact on human mortality. We use a multi-model ensemble of climate simulations from the Pol…
Managing climate change challenges to water security: Community water governance in Ethiopia and Nepal
Climate change poses a threat to water security where both current and future generations are concerned, with its accompanying impacts set to be greater in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). As a result, questions pertaining to climate change adaption in LMICs are receiving increased attention from academics and policymakers alike. It is broadly accepted that top‐down approaches to developing resilience to climate change challenges have be…
Predicting future UK nighttime urban heat islands using observed short-term variability and regional climate projections
By 2050, 68% of the world’s population and 90% of the UK’s population are estimated to be living in urban areas. It is widely acknowledged that urban areas tend to be warmer than rural areas (the urban heat island (UHI) effect), and that increased summer temperatures increase morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important to know how the UHI intensity will change in the future. Recent work has used observed daily UHI-temperature relationships…
Robust increase in population exposure to heat stress with increasing global warming
Extreme heat, particularly if combined with humidity, poses a severe risk to human health. To estimate future global risk of extreme heat with humidity on health, we calculate indicators of heat stress that have been commonly used: the Heat Index, the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature and the Wet-Bulb Temperature, from the latest Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) projections. We analyse how and where different levels of heat stress hazards w…
Updated projections of UK heat-related mortality using policy-relevant global warming levels and socio-economic scenarios
High temperatures and heatwaves are associated with significant impacts on human health. With continued global temperature increases, extreme thresholds relevant to health will be exceeded more frequently. This study provides an updated spatial analysis of heat-related mortality for the UK, using the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) at 1.5 °C–4 °C global warming levels, and embedding population and demographic data from the recently released UK Sh…
Projected risks associated with heat stress in the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18)
Summer heat extremes in the UK pose a risk to health (amongst other sectors) and this is exacerbated by localised socio-economic factors that contribute to vulnerability. Here, regional climate model simulations from the UK Climate Projections are used to assess how different elements of extreme heat will vary across the UK in the future under global mean surface temperature warming levels of +1.5 °C, +2.0 °C and +3.0 °C above pre-industrial. Hea…
Estimating heat-related mortality in near real time for national heatwave plans
Heatwaves are a serious threat to human life. Public health agencies that are responsible for delivering heat-health action plans need to assess and reduce the mortality impacts of heat. Statistical models developed in epidemiology have previously been used to attribute past observed deaths to high temperatures and project future heat-related deaths. Here, we investigate the novel use of summer temperature-mortality associations established by th…
On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change
Investigations into the role of anthropogenic climate change in extreme weather events are now starting to extend into analysis of anthropogenic impacts on non-climate (e.g. socio-economic) systems. However, care needs to be taken when making this extension, because methodological choices regarding extreme weather attribution can become crucial when considering the events’ impacts. The fraction of attributable risk (FAR) method, useful in extreme…
The vertical profile of recent tropical temperature trends: Persistent model biases in the context of internal variability
Tropospheric and stratospheric tropical temperature trends in recent decades have been notoriously hard to simulate using climate models, particularly in the upper troposphere. Aside from the warming trend itself, this has broader implications, e.g. atmospheric circulation trends depend on latitudinal temperature gradients. In this study, tropical temperature trends in the CMIP6 models are examined, from 1979 to 2014, and contrasted with trends f…
Managing climate change challenges to water security: Community water governance in Ethiopia and Nepal
Climate change poses a threat to water security where both current and future generations are concerned, with its accompanying impacts set to be greater in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). As a result, questions pertaining to climate change adaption in LMICs are receiving increased attention from academics and policymakers alike. It is broadly accepted that top‐down approaches to developing resilience to climate change challenges have be…
The vertical profile of recent tropical temperature trends: Persistent model biases in the context of internal variability
Tropospheric and stratospheric tropical temperature trends in recent decades have been notoriously hard to simulate using climate models, particularly in the upper troposphere. Aside from the warming trend itself, this has broader implications, e.g. atmospheric circulation trends depend on latitudinal temperature gradients. In this study, tropical temperature trends in the CMIP6 models are examined, from 1979 to 2014, and contrasted with trends f…
On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change
Investigations into the role of anthropogenic climate change in extreme weather events are now starting to extend into analysis of anthropogenic impacts on non-climate (e.g. socio-economic) systems. However, care needs to be taken when making this extension, because methodological choices regarding extreme weather attribution can become crucial when considering the events’ impacts. The fraction of attributable risk (FAR) method, useful in extreme…
Robust increase in population exposure to heat stress with increasing global warming
Extreme heat, particularly if combined with humidity, poses a severe risk to human health. To estimate future global risk of extreme heat with humidity on health, we calculate indicators of heat stress that have been commonly used: the Heat Index, the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature and the Wet-Bulb Temperature, from the latest Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) projections. We analyse how and where different levels of heat stress hazards w…
Updated projections of UK heat-related mortality using policy-relevant global warming levels and socio-economic scenarios
High temperatures and heatwaves are associated with significant impacts on human health. With continued global temperature increases, extreme thresholds relevant to health will be exceeded more frequently. This study provides an updated spatial analysis of heat-related mortality for the UK, using the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) at 1.5 °C–4 °C global warming levels, and embedding population and demographic data from the recently released UK Sh…
Projected risks associated with heat stress in the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18)
Summer heat extremes in the UK pose a risk to health (amongst other sectors) and this is exacerbated by localised socio-economic factors that contribute to vulnerability. Here, regional climate model simulations from the UK Climate Projections are used to assess how different elements of extreme heat will vary across the UK in the future under global mean surface temperature warming levels of +1.5 °C, +2.0 °C and +3.0 °C above pre-industrial. Hea…
Estimating heat-related mortality in near real time for national heatwave plans
Heatwaves are a serious threat to human life. Public health agencies that are responsible for delivering heat-health action plans need to assess and reduce the mortality impacts of heat. Statistical models developed in epidemiology have previously been used to attribute past observed deaths to high temperatures and project future heat-related deaths. Here, we investigate the novel use of summer temperature-mortality associations established by th…
Predicting future UK nighttime urban heat islands using observed short-term variability and regional climate projections
By 2050, 68% of the world’s population and 90% of the UK’s population are estimated to be living in urban areas. It is widely acknowledged that urban areas tend to be warmer than rural areas (the urban heat island (UHI) effect), and that increased summer temperatures increase morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important to know how the UHI intensity will change in the future. Recent work has used observed daily UHI-temperature relationships…
Managing climate change challenges to water security: Community water governance in Ethiopia and Nepal
Climate change poses a threat to water security where both current and future generations are concerned, with its accompanying impacts set to be greater in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). As a result, questions pertaining to climate change adaption in LMICs are receiving increased attention from academics and policymakers alike. It is broadly accepted that top‐down approaches to developing resilience to climate change challenges have be…
Extreme heat impacts on daily life and adaptive behaviours captured through lived experience
So far, there has been little evidence of the impact of extreme heat on behaviour and wellbeing in daily life, beyond gross health metrics like hospital admissions and mortality. Data are needed to better understand the relative impact of a changing climate across life course strata and ultimately inform effective adaptation strategies. Using the UK September 2023 heatwave as a case study, we surveyed 3242 participants from the Avon longitudinal …
No detectable decrease in extreme cold-related mortality in Canada from Arctic sea ice loss
Arctic amplification (AA), the phenomenon by which Arctic surface temperatures are warming faster than the global average, may have significant unexplored impacts on temperature-related mortality in human populations across Canada. We explore the role of Arctic sea ice loss, a key driver of AA, in changing cold temperature extremes across Canada and their impact on human mortality. We use a multi-model ensemble of climate simulations from the Pol…
Environmental Science (10 works) · Climatology (9 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Geology (6 works) · Climate variability and models (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Atmospheric sciences (4 works) · Meteorology (4 works)