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

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Originator: Tuholske, C., P. Peterson, C. Funk, and K. Caylor
Publication Date: 20230811
Title: Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), 1983-2016
Edition: 1.00
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Publication Place: Palisades, NY
Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/hff0-k565
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Originator: Tuholske, C., K. Caylor, C. Funk, A. Verdin, S. Sweeney, K. Grace, P. Peterson, and T. Evans
Publication Date: 20211012
Title: Global Urban Population Exposure to Extreme Heat
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Series Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Issue Identification: 118(41), e2024792118

Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024792118

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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.
Purpose: To provide a high-resolution, longitudinal global data set of annual extreme humid-heat.

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Beginning Date: 1983/01/01
Ending Date: 2016/12/31

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Progress: Complete
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Theme Keyword: Climate
Theme Keyword: Health
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Theme Keyword: Population
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Theme Keyword: Sustainability

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Theme Keyword: Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Theme Keyword: Health

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Theme Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > HEAT

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