Forecasting feels-like temperatures as a strategy to reduce heat illnesses during sport events

Affiliations

• ¹ Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ² Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ³ Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology (EA 7424), Université Jean Monnet, Lyon 1, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Saint-Etienne, France.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Faculty of Medicine, Saint-Etienne, France.
• ⁵ Department of Sports Medicine, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
• ⁶ Research and Scientific Support, ASPETAR - Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
• ⁷ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, UK.
• ⁸ European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK.
• ⁹ IInstitute of Interdisciplinary Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany karsten.hollander@medicalschool-hamburg.de.