Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), 1983-2016

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The Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), 1983-2016 data set provides global 0.05 degrees (~5 km) gridded annual counts of the number of days where the maximum Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGTmax) exceeded dangerous hot-humid heat thresholds for the period 1983 to 2016. The thresholds are based on the International Standards Organization (ISO) criteria for occupational heat-related risk, defined as days where WBGTmax > 28, 30, and 32 degrees Celsius. This data set also includes the annual rate of change in the number of extreme humid-heat days that exceeded these thresholds. GEHE has a wide array of applications for mapping and quantifying extreme humid-heat dynamics over a 34-year time period, and is the highest resolution data set of its kind to date. GEHE provides scientific researchers and decision makers from a wide range of arenas, including climate change, public and occupational health, urban planning and design, hazards risk reduction, and food security, insights into how humid-heat has impacted human and environmental systems worldwide. The data set can be used to pinpoint how changes in extreme humid-heat impact human health and well-being, as well as ecological systems, across scales of analysis, from local, to national, to global.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Data Set Overview Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/sdei-high-res-extreme-heat-estimates-1983-2016
22 Sample browse graphic of the data set. https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/sdei/sdei-high-res-extreme-heat-estimates-1983-2016/sedac-logo.jpg
21 Data Download Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/sdei-high-res-extreme-heat-estimates-1983-2016/data-download
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7927%2Fhff0-k565
21 Documentation Page http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/sdei-high-res-extreme-heat-estimates-1983-2016/docs

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  • human-dimensions
  • natural-hazards
  • earth-science

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