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Heatwaves: Causes, Consequences and Responses (2024)
Book
McGregor, G. (2024). Heatwaves: Causes, Consequences and Responses. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69906-1

This book brings together an end-to-end understanding of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences for human and natural systems and societal responses to them in the form of adaptation and mitigation actions. It advocates for... Read More about Heatwaves: Causes, Consequences and Responses.

Public Health Preparedness for Extreme Heat Events (2023)
Journal Article
Hess, J., Errett, N., McGregor, G., Isaksen, T., Wettstein, Z., Wheat, S., & Ebi, K. (2023). Public Health Preparedness for Extreme Heat Events. Annual Review of Public Health, 44, 301-321. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-071421-025508

Heat is a dangerous hazard that causes acute heat illness, chronic disease exacerbations, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and a range of injuries. Risks are highest during extreme heat events (EHEs), which challenge the capacity of health systems and oth... Read More about Public Health Preparedness for Extreme Heat Events.

Climate Change, Grape Phenology and Frost Risk in Southeast England (2022)
Journal Article
Llanaj, C., & McGregor, G. (2022). Climate Change, Grape Phenology and Frost Risk in Southeast England. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 2022, Article 9835317. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9835317

Background and Aims: Cultivation of grapevines in England is expected to benefit under climate change. Yet assessments of future wine-climates remain undeveloped. Accordingly, this study assesses how climate change might modify frost risk for Chardon... Read More about Climate Change, Grape Phenology and Frost Risk in Southeast England.

Conclusions and Moving Forward (2021)
Book Chapter
Mcgregor, G. (2021). Conclusions and Moving Forward. In G. McGregor, & C. Ren (Eds.), Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (389-398). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5_18

Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities argues for the recognition of climate as a key element of healthy cities. In doing so, it adds to a legacy of encouragement by urban climatologists and enlightened planners for the inclusion of climat... Read More about Conclusions and Moving Forward.

Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (2021)
Book Chapter
Mcgregor, G. (2021). Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities. In G. McGregor, & C. Ren (Eds.), Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (3-16). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5_1

The rise of mega- and high-density compact cities are now irreversible trends of human urban development. While megacities and high-density urban living may make lives more convenient and society more economically efficient, they pose a range of envi... Read More about Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities.

Urban heat: An increasing threat to global health (2021)
Journal Article
Tong, S., Prior, J., McGregor, G., Shi, X., & Kinney, P. (2021). Urban heat: An increasing threat to global health. British Medical Journal, 375, Article 2467. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2467

Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (2021)
Book
Ren, C., & McGregor, G. (Eds.). (2021). Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5

This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities. The book illustrates the idea of "Science in Time, Science in Place" by providing worldwide case-based urban climatic planning applicatio... Read More about Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities.

Weather patterns and all-cause mortality in England, UK (2019)
Journal Article
Psistaki, K., Paschalidou, A. K., & McGregor, G. (2020). Weather patterns and all-cause mortality in England, UK. International Journal of Biometeorology, 64, 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01803-0

Cold- and heat-related mortality poses significant public health concerns worldwide. Although there are numerous studies dealing with the association between extreme ambient temperature and mortality, only a small number adopt a synoptic climatologic... Read More about Weather patterns and all-cause mortality in England, UK.

Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle (2019)
Journal Article
Lam, H., Haines, A., McGregor, G., Chan, E., & Hajat, S. (2019). Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(17), Article 3146. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16173146

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major driver of climatic variability that can have far reaching consequences for public health globally. We explored whether global, regional and country-level rates of people affected by natural disasters... Read More about Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle.

Climate and Rivers (2019)
Journal Article
McGregor, G. R. (2019). Climate and Rivers. River Research and Applications, 35(8), 1119-1140. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3508

Over the last few decades as hydrologists have slowly raised their line of sight above the watershed boundary, it has become increasingly recognised that what happens in the atmosphere, as a major source of moisture for the terrestrial branch of the... Read More about Climate and Rivers.

Atmospheric drivers of winter above‐freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada (2019)
Journal Article
Newton, B., Bonsal, B., Edwards, T., Prowse, T., & McGregor, G. (2019). Atmospheric drivers of winter above‐freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada. International Journal of Climatology, 39(15), 5655-5671. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6178

Winter thaw episodes, especially when accompanied by rain, can significantly deplete the winter snowpack, which is a critical water storage component in the mountainous headwater regions of the major river basins of western Canada. Here we identify t... Read More about Atmospheric drivers of winter above‐freezing temperatures and associated rainfall in western Canada.

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Health: An Overview for Climate and Health Researchers (2018)
Journal Article
McGregor, G., & Ebi, K. (2018). El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Health: An Overview for Climate and Health Researchers. Atmosphere, 9(7), Article 282. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9070282

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important mode of climatic variability that exerts a discernible impact on ecosystems and society through alterations in climate patterns. For this reason, ENSO has attracted much interest in the climate... Read More about El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Health: An Overview for Climate and Health Researchers.

Heat: A Primer for Public Health Researchers (2017)
Journal Article
McGregor, G., & Vanos, J. (2018). Heat: A Primer for Public Health Researchers. Public Health, 161, 138-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.11.005

Objectives: To provide a primer on the physical characteristics of heat from a biometeorological perspective for those interested in the epidemiology of extreme heat. Study design: A literature search design was used. Methods: A review of the concept... Read More about Heat: A Primer for Public Health Researchers.

Hydroclimatology, modes of climatic variability and stream flow, lake and groundwater level variability (2017)
Journal Article
McGregor, G. (2017). Hydroclimatology, modes of climatic variability and stream flow, lake and groundwater level variability. Progress in Physical Geography, 41(4), 496-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133317726537

Hydroclimatology is an expansive discipline largely concerned with understanding the workings of the hydrological cycle in a climate context. Acknowledging this, and given the burgeoning interest in the relation between climate and water in the conte... Read More about Hydroclimatology, modes of climatic variability and stream flow, lake and groundwater level variability.

Meteorological risk: extreme temperatures (2017)
Book Chapter
McGregor, G. (2017). Meteorological risk: extreme temperatures. In K. Poljanšek, M. Marin Ferrer, T. De Groeve, & I. Clark (Eds.), Science for disaster risk management 2017 : knowing better and losing less (257-270). Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2788/842809

Understanding temperature extremes in a DRM context involves getting to know how often temperature extremes occur, the conditions under which they occur and establishing associated direct and indirect societal impacts. Knowledge about temperature ext... Read More about Meteorological risk: extreme temperatures.

Analysis of the synoptic winter mortality climatology in five regions of England: Searching for evidence of weather signals (2017)
Journal Article
Paschalidou, A., Kassomenos, P., & McGregor, G. (2017). Analysis of the synoptic winter mortality climatology in five regions of England: Searching for evidence of weather signals. Science of the Total Environment, 598, 432-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.276

Although heat-related mortality has received considerable research attention, the impact of cold weather on public health is less well-developed, probably due to the fact that physiological responses to cold weather can vary substantially among indiv... Read More about Analysis of the synoptic winter mortality climatology in five regions of England: Searching for evidence of weather signals.

Linking Inter-annual River Flow River Variability Across New Zealand to the Southern Annular Mode, 1979-2011 (2017)
Journal Article
Ning, L., & McGregor, G. (2017). Linking Inter-annual River Flow River Variability Across New Zealand to the Southern Annular Mode, 1979-2011. Hydrological Processes, 31(12), 2261-2276. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11184

River flow constitutes an important element of the terrestrial branch of the hydrological cycle, yet knowledge regarding the extent to which its variability, at a range of time scales, is linked to a number of modes of atmospheric circulation is meag... Read More about Linking Inter-annual River Flow River Variability Across New Zealand to the Southern Annular Mode, 1979-2011.

Tropospheric moisture in the Southwest Pacific as revealed by homogenized radiosonde data: Climatology and decadal trend (2016)
Journal Article
Li, N., Bellon, G., & McGregor, G. (2017). Tropospheric moisture in the Southwest Pacific as revealed by homogenized radiosonde data: Climatology and decadal trend. International Journal of Climatology, 37(3), 1341-1355. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4780

Radiosonde data are valuable to the research community because they provide observations for multiple decades and can be used to validate model output. However radiosonde data often suffer from quality issues, which has undermined their credibility.... Read More about Tropospheric moisture in the Southwest Pacific as revealed by homogenized radiosonde data: Climatology and decadal trend.

Exploring Winter Mortality Variability in Five Regions of England Using Back Trajectory Analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Dimitriou, K., McGregor, G., Kassomenos, P., & Paschalidou, A. (2016). Exploring Winter Mortality Variability in Five Regions of England Using Back Trajectory Analysis. Earth Interactions, 20(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1175/ei-d-15-0012.1

This paper aims to define atmospheric pathways related with the occurrence of daily winter low temperature episodes (LTE) in England, for the 26-yr period 1974–99, and to reveal possible associations with increased mortality rates. For this purpose,... Read More about Exploring Winter Mortality Variability in Five Regions of England Using Back Trajectory Analysis.

Humidity: A review and primer on atmospheric moisture and human health (2015)
Journal Article
David, R., McGregor, G., & Enfield, K. (2016). Humidity: A review and primer on atmospheric moisture and human health. Environmental Research, 144(Part A), 106-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2015.10.014

Research examining associations between weather and human health frequently includes the effects of atmospheric humidity. A large number of humidity variables have been developed for numerous purposes, but little guidance is available to health resea... Read More about Humidity: A review and primer on atmospheric moisture and human health.