(Relative) Extreme Temperature Events
Project Information:
As part of a NOAA-funded grant to examine trends in a variety of different factors that relate to human thermal comfort, we developed four metrics based upon the Nairn and Fawcett (2014) idea of an Excess Heat Factor:
- Extreme Heat Events (EHE)
- Extreme Cold Events (ECE)
- Relative Extreme Heat Events (REHE)
- Realtive Extreme Cold Events (RECE)
Links to Project Data:
Each of the data files below (except for Metadata) is in a compressed (.zip) file. The original size of each file is 564MB.
This research is published in: Sheridan, S.C. and Lee, C.C., 2018. Temporal trends in absolute and relative extreme temperature events across North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(21), pp.11-889. DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029150.
This research was funded by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; Award#: NA17OAR4310159; PI: Cameron C. Lee, Kent State University). Please feel free to use these data free of charge for scientific research purposes. We only ask that you cite this webpage as the data source, and the publication cited above outlining the development of these data.