Thermal stress information as a tourism-oriented climate product: Performance analysis for selected urban destinations in Romania and Italy.

The study addresses the characteristics of a climate service targeting tourists and discusses the evaluation of its products with a particular focus on the thermal stress information. Furthermore, an assessment of the impact of input data on the accuracy and relevance of the thermal stress product is presented. The thermal stress is expressed through UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index) and it is computed from UERRA regional reanalysis and E-OBS gridded dataset, for summer season during 2011-2018.

Large sex differences in vulnerability to circulatory-system disease under current and future climate in Bucharest and its rural surroundings.

Circulatory-system diseases (CSDs) are responsible for 50-60% of all deaths in Romania. Due to its continental climate, with cold winters and very warm summers, there is a strong temperature dependence of the CSD mortality. Additionally, within its capital Bucharest, the urban heat island (UHI) is expected to enhance (reduce) heat (cold)-related mortality.