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Extreme Cold - Anomaly, Historical, Baseline, Global (v1.0)

Description

This is a static historical dataset for global land areas capturing the near-historical risk from extreme cold anomalies over a 30 year period using the daily mean windchill temperature.

Categories:
cold, global, thermal, hazard, risk, stress, historical, temperature, wind chill, anomaly
Temporal Extent:
1992-01-01 to 2022-01-01
Region:
Global
Resolution:
11 km
Product Version:
1.0

Technical Description

The Extreme Cold - Historical Risk, Anomaly product provides valuable insights into the frequency of extreme cold actuals across the globe in a 30-year time period from 1992-2021. This product seek to identify global areas where extreme cold conditions may have presented risks to human health, assets, agriculture, water resources, and wildlife.

The product's extreme_cold_anomaly_frequency field detects locations experiencing below freezing temperatures that were concurrently below the normal conditions for that area. It considers regional acclimatization and ensures an absolute baseline for classifying extreme cold events.