HeatStress

What is HeatStress?

HeatStress is a R package for the calculation of heat stress indices. It has been developed in the framework of the Horizon2020 HEAT-SHIELD project.

Installation

The recommended procedure for installing the package is using the devtools package.

devtools::install_github("anacv/HeatStress")

A list of all available indices and the atomic functions calculating them is printed on screen with:

library(HeatStress)
indexShow()

Reference and further information

This package was used in the development of climate change scenarios of heat stress, in the following publications:

• Casanueva et al. 2019. Climate projections of a multi-variate heat stress index: the role of downscaling and bias correction, Geoscientific Model Development, https://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/gmd-2018-294/
• Casanueva et al. 2019. Escalating environmental heat exposure – a future threat for the European workforce, Regional Environmental Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01625-6