Historical Weather Data for Events and Non-Events Thresholds

Bwire, C and Juel, R. 2024. Historical Weather Data for Events and Non-Events Thresholds. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004298.

Bwire, C and Juel, R. Historical Weather Data for Events and Non-Events Thresholds [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2024. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004298.

Bwire, C and Juel, R (2024). Historical Weather Data for Events and Non-Events Thresholds. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004298.

Description

The dataset contains data from the Historical Weather Application Programming Interfaces from https://open-meteo.com/ for "Mean Apparent Temperature (2m)", "Maximum Apparent Temperature (2m)", and "Minimum Apparent Temperature (2m)" for the years 2013 to 2023, covering the177 focal cities of the Children, Cities, and Climate Action Lab for the data collection period of August, September and October. These datasets are derived from reanalysis data combining observations from weather stations, aircraft, buoys, radar, and satellites. Mean Apparent Temperature (2m) is the 24-hour average perceived temperature, factoring in wind chill, humidity, and solar radiation. The research team calculated the monthly average [Tavg] of these values to set NON-EVENT sampling thresholds for automated identification using the Airtable platform (https://www.airtable.com/). Maximum and Minimum Apparent Temperature (2m) represent the daily extremes of perceived temperature. The 90th percentile of these values [Tmax90] and [Tmin90] were manually calculated to set EVENT sampling thresholds for automated identification using airtable.

Methods

Data capture method

Compilation/Synthesis

Data Collection Period

From	To
3 June 2024	6 August 2024

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

9 August 2024

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Bwire, C and Juel, R
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- )
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom