Thermal comfort indices derived from ERA-Interim reanalysis for Northern Eurasia

Authors: Mikhail Varentsov,
Pavel Konstantinov, Natalia Shartova

Description: The data set provides a historical reconstruction of the set of
indices that represent the human thermal comfort or discomfort in outdoor
environment, derived from ERA-Interim reanalysis with 0.75 ° spatial resolution
on 3-hourly intervals for the period of 1979-2018, for the territory of
Northern Eurasia (10°W – 170 °W, 40 °N - 80 °N). It contains five different
thermal comfort indices:

·
Physiologically-Equivalent
Temperature (PET),

·
Universal Thermal
Climate Index (UTCI),

·
Heat Index (UTCI),

·
Humidex (HUM),

·
Wind Chill
Temperature (WCT)

The calculation of PET and UTCI indices was performed in RayMan
software. The meteorological variables from the ERA-Interim reanalysis are also
included.

The data is separated into 40 files, that corresponds to 20x20 °cells.