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Heat Resilience

Building communities that stay safe when heat waves push the limits of the human body — through physiology, measurement and passive intervention.

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Key terms in this topic

Heat Stress
The thermal load a human body experiences from its environment.
Heat Strain
The body's internal, physiological response to heat stress.
Thermal Comfort
The condition in which a person is neither too hot nor too cold.
Wet Bulb Globe TemperatureWBGT
A composite heat index widely used to set safe limits for outdoor work, sport and military training.
Universal Thermal Climate IndexUTCI
A modern, physiology-based heat index that estimates how the human body actually responds to weather.
Mean Radiant TemperatureMRT
The average temperature of every surface radiating heat toward a person.
HeatLens
MEER's browser-based platform for physiologically informed heat-risk assessment and climate adaptation.
HESTIA
MEER's scientific engine for high-resolution surface energy and thermal comfort modelling.
PYROX
MEER's population heat-exposure and risk-attribution suite.
JOS-3
A validated multi-node human thermoregulation model used inside HeatLens.
Climate Resilience
A community's ability to withstand, recover from and continue functioning through climate stress.