ClimApp

Translating climate service into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with thermal climate stress

ERA4CSClimate services

Extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold spells are societal challenges. The impacts of extreme weather on human health are dependent not only on climate factors, but also on individual factors. The overall aim of this project is to develop an advanced mobile phone app that integrates weather forecast data into human heat balance models. The app will predict body responses, to provide health risk warning and advice for individuals, public and private sectors, to support decision-making for adaptation strategies, and to improve the quality of life, health and productivity when facing climate challenges.

ClimApp provides human health risk warnings and advice for adaptation strategies.In connection with weather forecast, ClimApp covers the range of temperatures from -50 to +50 °C.
The warning and advice are based on heat stress index and human body heat balance models.The impacts of extreme weather on human health are dependent not only on climate factors, but also on individual factors such as acclimatization to heat, activity intensity, clothing, etc.

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Extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold spells are societal challenges. The impacts of extreme weather on human health are dependent not only on climate factors, but also on individual factors. The overall aim of this project is to develop an advanced mobile phone app that integrates weather forecast data into human heat balance models. The app will predict body responses, to provide health risk warning and advice for individuals, public and private sectors, to support decision-making for adaptation strategies, and to improve the quality of life, health and productivity when facing climate challenges.

ClimApp predicts human body responses during extreme weather events, provides health risk warning and advice for individuals, public and private sectors, supports decision-making for adaptation strategies, and improves the quality of life, health and productivity when facing climate challenges. It can help to support the implementation of the Sustaianble Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being; 8: Decent work and economic growth; and 13: Climate action.

Chuansi Gao

LPI of the project

I am Chuansi Gao, PhD, Associate professor at Lund Universtiy, Sweden and I am coordinator of the ClimApp project. I check weather forecast everyday and find it especially exciting if the weather forecast (environmental information) is combined with human thermal physiology. The integrated mobile tool can improve and personalize the predicted effects of extreme weather events on health. My main research interest is in the impact of climate on human health, quality of life, comfort and productivity; development of protective measures and adaptation strategies to protect and prevent workers and vulnerable population from extreme weather events.

Project consortium

Technical University of Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Lund University
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Regional Public Health Services Gelderland-Midden
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss

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The competence of the consortium is of a multidisciplinary nature. Lund University (LU), Sweden is in charge of project coordination, overall monitoring and management to ensure the integration of various parts of the ClimApp. University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark leads the implementation of the ClimApp, liaises and collaborate with climate service providers and EU H2020 HEAT-SHIELD project consortium. Technical University of Denmark (DTU) contributes to the development of technical platform of the ClimApp and to the integration of indoor climate and thermal comfort model. VU University Amsterdam (VU) is responsible for the integration of individual physiological characteristics into ClimApp.
The Regional Public Health Services Gelderland-Midden (VGGM), The Netherlands are public health service providers who participate as a stakeholder and user, contribute to the project with knowledge on both risk communication to all age group users as well as expertise on preventive youth health care. Meteo Swiss, Switzerland participates as a stakeholder and a climate service provider through EU Heat-Shield network to support ClimApp.
Companies involved in the project are FritsdorfSport, experts in smartphone hydration app development and exercise performance.

Documents

All publications can be found on the project website: https://www.lth.se/climapp/dissemination/publications/

Article in journal
Predicted and user perceived heat strain using the ClimApp mobile tool for individualized alert and advice
Video
ECCA2021 E-Library ClimApp

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Parent programme

ERA4CS

European Research Area for Climate Services

ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services - This ERA-NET Consortium has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.

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