data

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/data/zhao-etal-2024

Raw and processed data from Zhao et al. (2024).

heatwave-days.csv: decadal statistics of heatwave exposure, in days. Columns include:

• location_type: country or region
• continent: continent in question
• region: region within the continent
• iso2: country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
• country: country name
• avr: average annual number of heatwave days over 1980–2019
• 1980-1989 through 2010-2019: average annual number of days for each decade
• Change_per_decade: the change in the average annual number of days each decade over 1980–2019
• percen: the percentage change in the average annual number of days each decade over 1980–2019

heatwave-mortality-stats-country: statistics around to heatwave-related mortality in long format. Columns include:

• measure: Excess deaths, Excess deaths per 10M residents
• population: WHO standard population or Country-specific age standardisation
• location_type: country or region
• id: an ID based on measure and population
• continent: continent the country is on
• region: region the country is in
• iso2: country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
• country: country name
• statistic: Overall, Average, Pct change per decade or a decadal range
• central, lower, upper: central, lower or upper estimates for the figure. Lower and upper are at a 95% confidence interval.

/data/zhao-etal-2024/raw

Supplementary tables from Zhao et al. (2024), which are processed and tidied by the analysis.

heatstress-asiapac-mosthours-2014to2023.csv, heatstress-asiapac-mostdays-avgannual-2014to2023.csv

Processed statistics from the above tidied data, specific to Asia-Pacific, ordered from most to least.

/cds

/cds/heatstress-hours-[couuntries|states].scv

Data on the heat stress experienced by countries and Indian states over 2014 to 2023, from the ERA5-HEAT dataset. Columns include:

• year: the year
• lower, upper: the lower and upper limits of the heat stress category, based on the the UTCI index. Thresholds are based on those defined by Copernicus.
• hs_category: a string label of the category representing a severity of heat stress, based on the UTCI index. Thresholds are based on those defined by Copernicus.
• iso: for countries, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code; for Indian states, an identifier
• country or state: the name of the country or the Indian state
• hours: the number of hours that the country or state averaged this level of heat stress for a given year

/cds/hs-datawrapper-sea.csv

Widened form of the above data for the south-east Asia region. Columns include:

• year: the year
• country: the country name
• Strong (32-38), Very strong (38-46), Extreme (> 46): hours within this UTCI heat stress band