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Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), v1 (1983 – 2016)

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Tuholske, C., P. Peterson, C. Funk, and K. Caylor. 2023. Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), 1983-2016. Palisades, New York: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/hff0-k565. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR.

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Tuholske, C., K. Caylor, C. Funk, A. Verdin, S. Sweeney, K. Grace, P. Peterson, and T. Evans. 2021. Global Urban Population Exposure to Extreme Heat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(41), e2024792118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024792118.

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The data are available in GeoTIFF raster format in four zip files containing the three temperature thresholds (WBGTmax 28 °C, 30 °C, and 32 °C), as well as the annual rate of increase (statistically significant at p < 0.05) in an unprojected WGS84 Geographic Coordinate System (GCS):