Clasificación compleja y objetiva de los estados del tiempo diarios según la estructura del régimen térmico del aire y otros indicadores biometeorológicos
- David Martín Estévez
- Luis Bartolomé Lecha Estela
- Jorge Olcina Cantos
- Pablo Fdez. de Arróyabe Hernáez
- Concepción Rodríguez Puebla (coord.)
- Antonio Ceballos Barbancho (coord.)
- Nube González Reviriego (coord.)
- Enrique Morán Tejeda (coord.)
- Ascensión Hernández Encinas (coord.)
Publisher: Asociación Española de Climatología
ISBN: 978-84-695-4331-3
Year of publication: 2012
Pages: 843-853
Congress: Asociación Española de Climatología. Congreso (8. 2012. Salamanca)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Recent studies have demonstrated that the time and space variations of the air thermal regime, based upon the behavior of daily extreme air temperatures, constitutes a good approach to evaluate the potential effects of abrupt weather changes on human health, and therefore, they may be considered such a significant risk factor for human health. The present work gives the fundaments for the development of a complex classification criterium of daily weather types (DWT) for its biometeorological use into the Spanish territory. A strong relationship among the occurrence of interdaily contrasting weather changes and the remarkable daily increase of some chronic non communicable diseases was found. The obtained results allowed the design of an early health alert system, based upon objective models of biometeorological forecasts. This operational system may inform to the medical institutions up to 7 days in advance on the occurrence of dangerous meteortropic effects. It will permit to mitigate their impacts on the health of the most sensitive groups of the local population.