HeatStress is a R package for the calculation of heat stress indices. It has been developed in the framework of the Horizon2020 HEAT-SHIELD project.
The recommended procedure for installing the package is using the devtools package.
devtools::install_github("anacv/HeatStress")A list of all available indices and the atomic functions calculating them is printed on screen with:
library(HeatStress)
indexShow()This package was used in the development of climate change scenarios of heat stress, in the following publications:
- Casanueva et al. 2019. Climate projections of a multi-variate heat stress index: the role of downscaling and bias correction, Geoscientific Model Development, https://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/gmd-2018-294/
- Casanueva et al. 2019. Escalating environmental heat exposure – a future threat for the European workforce, Regional Environmental Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01625-6