Priority Countries Identified in the Chilling Prospects Report

Key:
Number of Cooling Degree Days: ◼ <500   ◼ 500-1000   ◼ 1000-1500   ◼ 1500-2000   ◼ 2000-2500   ◼ 2500-3000  
◼ 3000-3500   ◼ 3500-4000   ◼ 4000-4500   ◼ 4500-5000   ◼ 5000+  

Cooling Degree Days calculated by IEA using 18C basis and adjusted for humidity index for 2050 under warming scenario RCP4.5.


Citation: “IEA calculated Cooling Degree Days relative to a base temperature of 18°C and adjusted for humidity.
Sources: Derived using NCAR (2004), Community Climate System Model, Version 3.0, http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/ccsm3.0/;
NCAR (2012), GIS Program Climate Change Scenarios, Version 2.0, http://www.gisclimatechange.org;
CIESIN (2017), Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision of UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 10, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4JQ0XZW;
heat index fromwww.nws.noaa.gov/om/heat/heat_index.shtml.”

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