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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>Data prepared by </SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>CRCWSC.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>The TARGET model Scenario Tool was used to map and analyse current and future extreme heat hazard for urban settlements across ten regions identified by the Queensland Government. The modelling project covered 10 regions across Queensland. TARGET model is an urban heat island model and it uses meteorological forces to calculate the air temperature at the neighbourhood to precinct scale. In TARGET model, Ambient temperature is the most important force among other ones such as humidity, pressure, wind and radiations. For the climate change scenarios, the long-term heatwave temperature were extracted from 11 downscaled climate models for Queensland. Future heatwave conditions were looked at for two emission projections which are RCP 4.5 and 8.5 in a 20 year interval. The output was UTCI (</SPAN><A href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__utci.lobelia.earth_what-2Dis-2Dutci&d=DwMGaQ&c=tpTxelpKGw9ZbZ5Dlo0lybSxHDHIiYjksG4icXfalgk&r=HGvkwoEjEf83eJHXTwMklgLMvC-O-ToeUq0Sd7EZ8Zg&m=fyLihM-Bdz0aNBS0LMyeMtqDbvLFoFyLTrV9aa2g5l7wLwnmmKzJ8LLER_-w2TVP&s=OgfepV6GSFCP-VB19V703HUlJNppeHk9FLtpQ9pEYII&e=" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN><SPAN>https://utci.lobelia.earth/what-is-utci</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN>) which is a more meaningful metric for human health impacts due to heat. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |