Research Article
An Exploration of Temperature Metrics for Further Developing the Heat-Health Weather Warning System in Hong Kong
Table 3
Summary statistics of daily death counts and weather parameters in 1999–2009.
| | | Mean | SD | Minimum | Maximum |
| | Mortality categories | | | | | | Daily total death (all-cause) | 91.11 | 14.36 | 39 | 162 | | Daily total death (respiratory) | 17.06 | 5.88 | 3 | 52 | | Daily total death (cardiovascular) | 21.61 | 5.98 | 3 | 54 | | Weather parameters | | | | | | Daily mean temperature (°C) | 23.21 | 5.09 | 8.2 | 31.8 | | Daily maximum temperature (°C) | 25.57 | 5.31 | 9.3 | 35.4 | | Daily minimum temperature (°C) | 21.35 | 5.14 | 5.8 | 29.4 | | Mean daily apparent temperature (°C) | 26.43 | 8.01 | 6.2 | 39.7 | | Mean net effective temperature (°C) |
16.25
|
7.19
| −6.6 | 27.5 | | Diurnal temperature range (°C) |
4.22
|
1.46
|
0.7
| 12.2 | | Temperature change (mean temperature) between neighbouring days (°C) | −0.001 |
1.31
| −5.9 | 4.9 |
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