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DOI	10.1038/s41612-024-00635-z
	Warming climate is helping human beings run faster, jump higher and throw farther through less dense air
	Wang, Shixin; Chen, Tiexi; Luo, Jing-Jia; Gao, Meng; Zuo, Hongchao; Ling, Fenghua; Hu, Jianlin; Yuan, Chaoxia; Yang, Yuanjian; Wang, Lina; Huang, Huaming; Wang, Naiang; Li, Yaojun; Yamagata, Toshio
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2397-3722
起始页码	7
结束页码	1
卷号	7 期号:1
英文摘要	Understanding both positive and negative impacts of climate change is essential for comprehensively assessing and well adapting to the impacts of changing climate. Conventionally, climate warming is revealed to negatively impact human activities. Here, we reveal that human beings' performance in anaerobic sports may benefit from climate warming. Using global weather observation and athletes' performance datasets, we show that world-top athletes' performances in nearly all athletics anaerobic events (i.e., sprints, jumps and throws) substantially improve as ambient temperature rises. For example, 100 m performance monotonically improves by 0.26 s as ambient temperature rises from 11.8 degrees to 36.4 degrees C. Using Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 datasets, we further show that global warming can substantially improve world-top athletes' performance in eleven of the thirteen Olympics athletics anaerobic events by 0.27%-0.88% and 0.14-0.48% under high-emission and medium-emission scenarios, respectively, during 1979-2100. Among them, the improvements for 100 m are 0.59% (0.063 s) and 0.32% (0.034 s), respectively. Mechanism analysis shows that the warmed ambient atmosphere can improve competitors' performance through expanding the air and thus reducing the air resistance to the competitors and throwing implements for hummer throw and all the sprints, hurdling and jumps. Quantitative analysis estimates that this thermodynamic process is essential for the impacts of warmed ambient atmosphere on the performances in these events as physiological processes are.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS类目	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001207744300001
来源期刊	NPJ CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296800
作者单位	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; Hong Kong Baptist University; Lanzhou University; Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC)
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Shixin,Chen, Tiexi,Luo, Jing-Jia,et al. Warming climate is helping human beings run faster, jump higher and throw farther through less dense air[J],2024,7(1).
APA	Wang, Shixin.,Chen, Tiexi.,Luo, Jing-Jia.,Gao, Meng.,Zuo, Hongchao.,...&Yamagata, Toshio.(2024).Warming climate is helping human beings run faster, jump higher and throw farther through less dense air.NPJ CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE,7(1).
MLA	Wang, Shixin,et al."Warming climate is helping human beings run faster, jump higher and throw farther through less dense air".NPJ CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE 7.1(2024).