Description
The Extreme Heat Monthly Summary product provides valuable insights into the frequency of extreme heat values across the globe at a monthly timescale. This product seeks to identify global areas where heat conditions may have presented risks to human health, agriculture, water resources, and wildlife.
Categories:
heat, global, thermal, hazard, risk, stress, summary, monthly, temperature
Temporal Extent:
2024-01-01
Region:
Global
Resolution:
11 km
Product Version:
1.0
Technical Description
The Extreme Heat, Human Risk - Monthly Summary product provides valuable insights into the frequency of extreme heat actuals across the globe at a monthly timescale. This product seek to identify global areas where heat conditions may have presented risks to human health, agriculture, water resources, and wildlife.
This dataset contains the following fields:
- extreme_heat_frequency: The product's extreme_heat_frequency field is a human-centered metric built as a critical indicator of when it becomes too hot 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 high temperatures that may pose risks to human health. This is the rate of days/month (between 0.0-1.0) with a max heat index in or above the US NWS 'Danger' threshold (>103F, 40C).