ERA5‐HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis

Di Napoli, Claudia; Barnard, Christopher; Prudhomme, Christel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2497; Cloke, Hannah L.; Pappenberger, Florian. 2021 ERA5‐HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis. Geoscience Data Journal, 8 (1). 2-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.102

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Abstract/Summary

The mean radiant temperature (MRT) and the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) are widely used as human biometeorology parameters to assess the linkages between outdoor environment and human well‐being. Historically computed from meteorological station measurements, we here present ERA5‐HEAT (Human thErmAl comforT), the first historical dataset of MRT and UTCI as spatially gridded records at the global scale. Derived using climate variables from ERA5, a quality‐controlled reanalysis produced by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ERA5‐HEAT consists of hourly gridded maps of MRT and UTCI at 0.25° × 0.25° spatial resolution. It currently spans from 1979 to present, and it will be extended in time as updates of ERA5 are made available. ERA5‐HEAT provides two streams, a consolidated and an intermediate one, that are released at 2 or 3 months and 5 days behind real time, respectively. Data are publicly and freely available for download at the Climate Data Store which has been developed as part of C3S. Being the only existing global historical gridded time series of MRT and UTCI to date, ERA5‐HEAT is aimed at a wide range of end users, from scientists to policymakers, with an interest in environment–health applications at any spatial and temporal scale.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.102
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	UKCEH Fellows
ISSN:	2049-6060
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	climate reanalysis, ERA5-HEAT, human comfort, mean radiant temperature, thermal indices, Universal Thermal Climate Index
NORA Subject Terms:	Meteorology and Climatology
Related URLs:	Dataset
Date made live:	22 Dec 2020 20:27 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529258

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