期刊名称：Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International
印刷版ISSN：2454-7352
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：1-22
DOI：10.9734/JGEESI/2016/18181
语种：English
出版社：Sciencedomain International
摘要：In this study, the excess heat factor (EHF) index was applied in five (5) selected stations in Nigeria to investigate heat wave characteristics. The EHF originally introduced for use in Australian heatwave monitoring and forecasting, has now been incorporated into a newly designed climpact R-based package used in this work. This work had analysed over 30 years of daily precipitation, minimum and maximum temperature data, as the climate base period, for the selected stations: guinea savannah: Lokoja, Minna; sudan savannah: Kano; sahel: Sokoto, Maiduguri. Daily input data were checked for quality and homogeneity by the climpact software, which also computed and plotted the indices.
关键词：Excess heat factor;heat wave;climate base period
