tomLandry
commented
5 years ago From Climate Explorer:
What does Average Daily Maximum Temperature (°F) tell us? A day’s highest (maximum) temperature usually occurs in the afternoon. Averaging the daily high temperatures over any period results in a mean maximum temperature for that period.
Maximum temperature serves as one measure of comfort and safety for people and for the health of plants and animals. When maximum temperature exceeds particular thresholds, people can become ill and transportation and energy infrastructure may be stressed.
Currently, most of the variables descriptions are simply duplicates from their names. For example: "Number of days with maximum temperature > 30°C". This looks very bad on the portal.
A better example is "Growing season length" described as "Number of days between the first occurrence of at least six consecutive days with mean daily temperature over 5℃ and the first occurrence of at least 6 consecutive days with mean daily temperature below 5℃ after July 1st in the northern hemisphere and January 1st in the southern hemisphere".
Some short descriptions are on the Climate Explorer, that could help.