We are glad to share that our latest work has been published in the Scientific Data journal of the Nature Portfolio. It describes the development of a novel human thermal bioclimate dataset using the Copernicus ECMWF CERRA reanalysis, gridded population data and human energy balance modeling.
The dataset consists of hourly, population-weighted values of the modified hysiologically equivalent temperature (mPET) at fine-scale administrative level in Greece and for 10 different population groups from 1991 to 2020.
The data can be widely used in human-biometeorological and environmental epidemiological research, accounting for differences in the human thermoregulation responses among diverse populations in order to better understand, assess and cope with thermal stress vulnerability.
The paper is available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-02923-y
Open access to the dataset is provided at https://zenodo.org/records/10251280, as well as to the code used for the development of the dataset at https://zenodo.org/records/10252280 (aiming at assisting its replication in other European countries).