@article{ref1,
title="Exploring the relationship between rising temperatures and the number of climate-related natural disasters in China",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2021",
author="Zhu, Mingan and Fan, Bihang",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="e745-e745",
abstract="Warming has strongly influenced the quantity and variability of natural disasters around the globe. This study aims to characterize the varying patterns between rising temperatures and climate-related natural disasters in China from 1951 to 2010. We examined the overall trend in the patterns of an 11-year cycle, and climate-related natural disaster responses to periods of rising and dropping temperature. We used Morlet wavelet analysis to determine the length of a temperature cycle period, and the arc elasticity coefficient to assess the number of climate-related natural disasters in response to the changing temperature. We found that: (1) the overall relationship between temperature and the number of climate-related natural disasters was positive; (2) however, on the cycle level, the pattern of climate-related natural disasters was found to be independent of temperature variation; (3) on the rise-drop level, temperature increases were associated with declines in the number of climate-related natural disasters. Moreover, as temperature decreased, the number of climate-related natural disasters increased substantially, such that temperature had a more considerable influence on the quantity of climate-related natural disasters during the temperature-drop period. <br><br>FINDINGS in this study can help enhance the dissemination of warning and mitigation efforts to combat natural disasters in the changing climate.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph18020745",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020745"
}