Satellite monitoring of summer heat wave
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BΓ©nΓ©dicte Dousset; FranΓ§oise Gourmelon; Karine Laaidi; Abdelkrim Zeghnoun; Emman
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Summer warming trends in Western Europe are increasing the incidence, intensity and duration of heat waves. They are especially deadly in large cities owing to population density, physical surface properties, anthropogenic heat and pollutants. In August 2003, for 9 consecutive days, the