Fig. 1: Climate, air-conditioning, and income characteristics in four selected emerging economies. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Climate, air-conditioning, and income characteristics in four selected emerging economies.

From: Air-conditioning and the adaptation cooling deficit in emerging economies

Fig. 1

a A 30-year average of gridded wet-bulb cooling degree days (CDDs), up to the second wave of household data used in the study (2009 for Brazil and 2012 for all other countries). b Rates of air-conditioning (AC) ownership in relation to per capita total expenditure (2011 US constant dollars at PPP) and comparison to other cooling devices in the second wave of household data. The black dashed line shows the distribution of households (HH) across income levels. Maps are generated using the sp, rgdal, and raster R packages.

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