Geography Department, Geobiomet Research Group, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
Centro de Estudio Ambientales (CESAM), Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
Int J Biometeorol. 2018 May;62(5):733-740. doi: 10.1007/s00484-017-1398-x. Epub 2017 Jun 28.
The design and implementation of any climate-related health service, nowadays, imply avoiding the digital divide as it means having access and being able to use complex technological devices, massive meteorological data, user's geographic location and biophysical information. This article presents the co-creation, in detail, of a biometeorological data infrastructure, which is a complex platform formed by multiple components: a mainframe, a biometeorological model called Pronbiomet, a relational database management system, data procedures, communication protocols, different software packages, users, datasets and a mobile application. The system produces four daily world maps of the partial density of the atmospheric oxygen and collects user feedback on their health condition. The infrastructure is shown to be a useful tool to delineate individual vulnerability to meteorological changes as one key factor in the definition of any biometeorological risk. This technological approach to study weather-related health impacts is the initial seed for the definition of biometeorological profiles of persons, and for the future development of customized climate services for users in the near future.
如今,任何与气候相关的卫生服务的设计和实施都意味着要避免数字鸿沟,因为这意味着能够访问和使用复杂的技术设备、大量气象数据、用户的地理位置和生物物理信息。本文详细介绍了一个生物气象数据基础设施的共同创建,该基础设施是由多个组件组成的复杂平台:主机、一个名为 Pronbiomet 的生物气象模型、关系型数据库管理系统、数据程序、通信协议、不同的软件包、用户、数据集和一个移动应用程序。该系统每天生成四张大气氧气局部密度的世界地图,并收集用户对其健康状况的反馈。该基础设施被证明是一种有用的工具,可以划分个人对气象变化的脆弱性,这是定义任何生物气象风险的关键因素之一。这种研究与天气相关的健康影响的技术方法是定义个人生物气象特征的初始种子,并为未来在不久的将来为用户开发定制化气候服务奠定基础。