literature: Absolute levels for extreme temp, critical thresholds of with-in day calculations.

[FanWangEcon]

Critical Thresholds

Review what are the appropriate temperature thresholds to use for heat and cold based on biological/scientific analysis. Perhaps there are several thresholds of different levels of severity.

• [x] Critical thresholds for extreme heat
• [x] Critical thresholds for extreme cold

Within day Measurement

We have potentially hourly measurements of temperature, and would want to construct a measure for whether a particular day is extremely cold or hot, how do we measure that. Should we take the average daily average temperature across all 24 hours, or just during the day time? Or if there is just a single hour in the day that is above heat threshold, the day falls under extremely hot, even if average is not?

• [ ] Which hours during the day should be included in extreme temperature calculation
• [ ] Given hours to be considered, should average be taken or extreme hour be considered.

[FanWangEcon]

By May 22

@marcomlaghi

Search and review literature, keep track relevant files in Zotero, and:

• [x] Propose critical thresholds for heat
• [x] Propose critical thresholds for hot

[FanWangEcon]

By Juen 5th

@marcomlaghi

• [ ] Provide a one or two paragraph write-up with references, add hat in the appendix of the paper overleaf file, and
• [x] Store references somewhere in Zotero.

This will be in support of our extreme temperature evaluation strategy in the paper.

[FanWangEcon]

Recent unicef report on child exposure to heat https://www.unicef.org/media/129506/file/UNICEF-coldest-year-heatwaves-and-children-EN.pdf, this analysis seems very naive compared to what we are doing.