Description
The Extreme Cold Monthly Summary product provides valuable insights into the frequency of extreme cold values across the globe at a monthly timescale. This product seeks to identify areas where cold conditions may cause potential damage to life and property.
Categories:
cold, global, thermal, hazard, risk, stress, monthly, summary, temperature
Temporal Extent:
2024-01-01
Region:
Global
Resolution:
11 km
Product Version:
1.0
Technical Description
The Extreme Cold, Human Risk - Monthly Summary product provides valuable insights into the frequency of extreme cold actuals across the globe at a monthly timescale. This product seeks to identify areas where cold conditions may cause potential damage to life and property.
This dataset contains the following fields:
- extreme_cold_frequency: The product's ‘extreme_cold_frequency’ field is a human-centered metric built as a critical indicator of when it becomes too cold for humans to safely endure outdoor activities. It offers a straightforward and comparable measure across diverse locations, making it a valuable tool for identifying areas with consistently low temperatures that may pose risks to human health. This is the rate of days/month (between 0.0-1.0) with a minimum wind chill at or below the 'High Risk' threshold (< -28 °C).