PPT-Hazards of Extreme Temperatures

Handling Heat amp Cold This material was produced under grant SH120867SHO from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration US Department of Labor It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the US Department of Labor nor does mention of trade names commercial products or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government. tender plants. may . be d. amaged. .  Examples would be . Camelias. , Gardenias, English Hawthorne and some varieties of . Azaleas.. Nothing . can be . done. right . now . but be patient. .  . When the . Temperature . Relations. Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display.. Outline. Microclimates. Temperature . and . Performance. Balancing . Heat Gain Against Heat . The use of low temperatures to preserve foods is based on the fact that the activities of microorganisms can be slowed at temperatures above freezing and generally stopped at subfreezing temperatures.. Questions to assess vulnerability. + How likely is an extreme natural event and will it affect people?. + How vulnerable are people to natural hazards?. + To what extent are societies able to cope with severe and immediate disasters?. F. ire . hazards and . autoignition. temperatures. Temperatures. Furnaces, ovens, hot plate, oil baths. 550-1000 . o. C. , 100-200 . o. C. , up to 100 . o. C. Saturated steam (1 bar): . 100 . o. C. Minnesota summer: . Environments are grouped into . BIOMES. group of ecosystems that have same climate & dominant communities. TROPICAL RAIN FOREST. has most species, . BIODIVERSITY. canopy = top |  understory =  below canopy . Extreme Events in New Mexico. What extreme weather events have you experienced? . What can you tell us about them? . What do we mean “Extreme Events?”. Extreme Heat. El Niño events. Winter Weather. January 25. th. , 2012. BIOL 475 . Hina Husain. Ryan Peters. Nichole . Wiemann. Extremophiles - What are they?. Organisms that thrive under "extreme conditions".. Alkaline. Acidic. Extremely cold. Extremely hot. Handling Heat & Cold. This . material was produced under the grant SH-22246-SH1 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Different statistical distributions that are used to more accurately describe the extremes of a distribution. Normal distributions don’t give suitable information in the tails of the distribution. Extreme value analysis is primarily concerned with modeling the low probability, high impact events well. Hazards of Extreme Temperatures Handling Heat & Cold This material was produced under grant SH-120867-SHO from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. th. , 2012. BIOL 475 . Hina Husain. Ryan Peters. Nichole . Wiemann. Extremophiles - What are they?. Organisms that thrive under "extreme conditions".. Alkaline. Acidic. Extremely cold. Extremely hot. Gerald A. Meehl . NCAR. 2010 Russian heat wave. Smoke from hundreds of fires over a thousand miles of western Russia, August 2. Over 2,000 houses destroyed by fires and about 4,000 people left homeless, wildfires burned in 17 Russian regions, and a state of emergency was declared. An activity for . Climate Change, A Human Health Perspective. A Student Exploration of the Impacts of Climate . Change on Human Health in the United States. A warmer future is projected to lead to “on the order of thousands to tens of thousands of additional premature deaths per year across the United States by the end of this century” from heat.  Any reduction in cold-related deaths is projected to be smaller than the increase in heat-related deaths in most regions. .