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.
Technical Description
The Extreme Cold Human Risk Monthly Summary (Global, v1.0) dataset provides a global summary of human exposure to extreme cold conditions, derived from ERA5-Land Daily Aggregated and Timely reanalysis data. For each month, daily minimum 2 m air temperature and maximum 10 m wind components are combined to compute wind chill values. The dataset then quantifies the frequency of days in which wind chill values fall below –28 °C, a threshold associated with severe human health risk. The resulting summaries are expressed as the proportion of days in the month meeting this extreme cold criterion. Outputs have an 11 km spatial resolution and are publish with a temporal granularity of one month. This product is intended to support risk assessments, climate adaptation planning, and monitoring of human exposure to extreme cold hazards.