News J-WAFS PI creates way to quantify climate change impacts

David L. Chandler March 22, 2024

A research paper by Elfatih Eltahir and others presents a new method for assessing and describing how global climate change will impact daily activities and quality of life in specific regions worldwide. The new measure, called “outdoor days,” describes the number of days per year that outdoor temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for people to go about normal outdoor activities, whether work or leisure, in reasonable comfort.