Hourly values of an advanced human-biometeorological index for diverse populations from 1991 to 2020

The presented human thermal bioclimate dataset was created in the frame of the HEAT-ALARM ("Development of a heat-health warning system in Greece") research project.

Initially developed for Greece,  it consists of hourly values of population-weighted mPET (modified physiologically equivalent temperature), simulated by the RayMan Pro model for the period 1991-2020 and for 10 population subsets in 72 regional units and combinations thereof, which are based on the NUTS-3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics-3) classification in Greece, using the Copernicus European Regional Reanalysis (CERRA) at 5.5 km spatial resolution. The dataset also includes the main environmental drivers of mPET (e.g. temperature) at the same spatiotemporal resolution.

In the framework of replicating the original dataset, the current version includes population-weighted values of mPET and its environmental drivers for six populations in five districts of Cyprus at the LAU-1 (Local Administrative Units-1) level, covering the period from 1991 to 2020. 

The code used to produce the presented data is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793067. It can be used to replicate the dataset not only directly in Greece, but also in any other country included in the CERRA domain after appropriate adjustments, as in the case of Cyprus above.

Compared to the previous version of the dataset for Greece, this version includes vapor pressure (VP) instead of relative humidity (see README.txt for more details), as VP is more relevant for human-biometerological and health-related studies. 

References

Giannaros, C., Agathangelidis, I., Galanaki, E. et al. Hourly values of an advanced human-biometeorological index for diverse populations from 1991 to 2020 in Greece. Sci Data 11, 76 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02923-y