Climate, extreme heat, and electricity demand in California

Climate, Extreme Heat, and Electricity Demand in California Norman L. Miller 1* , Katharine Hayhoe 2 , Jiming Jin 1 , Maximilian Auffhammer 3 Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley * Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Group, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 phone: 510.495.2374, fax: 510.486.5686, email: nlmiller@lbl.gov Submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology on 17 April 2006 Revised and resubmitted on 25 October 2006

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