Replication data for Temperature variability and long-run economic development

Description

This dataset contains the processed data used for the statistical analysis in Linsenmeier, M. (2023): Temperature variability and long-term economic development, published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

The main data on nightlights stem from the satellites of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The data are downloaded as annual composites (vcm) of version V1 (Elvidge et al., 2017). For robustness tests, also annual composites of version V2 are used (Elvidge et al., 2021). Additional data on nightlights are taken from the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) of Version 4. Data on the global distribution of crop land and pasture land (Ramankutty et al., 2008) are taken from NASA (Ramankutty et al., 2010). Data on population are from the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) dataset version 4.0 (CIESIN, 2018). Data on elevation are from the Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) dataset in version 1 provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (Hastings et al., 1999). Data on terrain ruggedness are from a global dataset with a resolution of 1 km (Shaver et al., 2018). Data on distances from the nearest coast are from NASA. Distance from inland water bodies are from the GloboLakes dataset (Carrea et al., 2015). Finally, data on weather are from ERA5 reanalysis (Hersbach et al. 2018). All datasets are spatially aggregated to the grid cells of the ERA5 reanalysis.

Acknowledgements

The data contain modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2020. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Image and data processing by Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines. DMSP data collected by US Air Force Weather Agency.

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