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cedadev / c3s_434_ecde_page_text

To manage page text for the European Climate Data Explorer being developed by the C3S 434 project.
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separate health and climate heat wave indicators #18

Closed charliepascoe closed 3 years ago

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

The heat wave indicator has 2 definitions (health and climate). These should be separated into 2 separate indicators and given names that reflect the information in the ETC tech paper.

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

ETC Tech paper

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

From the ETC Tech Paper: 8.‘Heatwave days based on apparent temperature’ is a high-priority index with relevance for human health. It is the only heatwave index combining temperature and humidity for which data on past trends as well as projections is readily available. The implementation of this index in the C3S dataset on heat waves and cold spells (Euroheat definition) considers daily maximum and minimum temperatures over the summer season above a percentile-based threshold.

  1. ‘Climatological heatwave days’ (i.e. the number of days with temperatures above a given percentile of temperatures during the reference period) is a medium-priority index because of its somewhat difficult interpretation. It depicts the change in unusually warm days, independently of the baseline climate. Different implementations of this index use different percentiles (e.g. 90th, 95th or 99th) and reference periods for calculating the threshold (e.g. the whole summer season or a window around the corresponding calendar day). One implementation of this index is available from the C3S dataset on heat waves and cold spells (Climatological EURO-CORDEX definition). (Related EEA indicator: Global and European temperature)
charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

Collecting my thoughts in this google doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pVWs-gj16d6wQ1QvO9W24VvMdJJXCDaUB7k3bqhUGpQ/edit?usp=sharing

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@sharppaul I am working on text for the heatwave indicators today. I hope to have it completed by 2pm.

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

I've added two new heatwave indices to the spreadsheet: C3S_434_016 and C3S_434_017. @sharppaul These will superceede the previous heatwave index: C3S_434_006. @jhaigh0 Can you push through this update to the json.

charliepascoe commented 3 years ago

@sharppaul The new heatwave indices are now in the json and markdown on github. (I also corrected the rogue "supporting info" header and a few other grammar issues).