Urban heat hazard in the Global South

This dataset includes various estimates of fine-grained outdoor heat hazard and vegetation metrics for cities in the Global South, and also for U.S. cities.Extent of urban clusters based on the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL; RWI_ALL_v2.geojson), European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESACCI; RWI_ALL_GLOB_v2.geojson) land cover data, and U.S. urbanized areas (GLOB_distance_US.geojson) in geojson format.

The geojsons and data tables have several environmental and socioeconomic variables by grid and census tract (for the U.S.).The variables are:

AT_max: 10-year (2010-2019) average maximum annual air temperatureAT_max_summ: 10-year (2010-2019) average maximum summer air temperatureAT_min: 10-year (2010-2019) average minimum annual air temperatureAT_min_summ: 10-year (2010-2019) average minimum summer air temperatureAll_area: Area of the grid or census tractEVI: Mean 10-year (2010-2019) Enhanced Vegetation IndexGrass_area: Area of grassland for ~2020 from the ESA WorldCover datasetID: ID of urban cluster (U.S. urbanized areas havr a 'NAME' for the urbanized area instead)LST_day: 10-year (2010-2019) average daytime annual land surface temperature from MODIS AquaLST_day_summ: 10-year (2010-2019) average daytime summer land surface temperature from MODIS AquaLST_night: 10-year (2010-2019) average nighttime annual land surface temperature from MODIS AquaLST_night_summ: 10-year (2010-2019) average nighttime summer land surface temperature from MODIS AquaPM25: 10-year (2010-2019) average particulate matter below 2.5 micron (not used in paper)Pop: Population of grid or census tractREGION_WB: World Bank regionSUBREGION: World Bank subregion (not used in paper)Tree: 10-year (2010-2019) average tree percentage from MODIS continuous vegetation fieldsTree_area: Area of trees for ~2020 from the ESA WorldCover datasetVeg: 10-year (2010-2019) average non-tree vegetation percentage from MODIS continuous vegetation fieldserror: Error in Relative Wealth Indexrwi: relative Wealth Index

In addition to these, the 'distance' files include a column for distance of the grids or census tract from the centroid of the cluster in belongs to.