edu.ucar.gdex::d010031 eng; USA utf-8 dataset NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange datahelp@ucar.edu https://gdex.ucar.edu NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research. download pointOfContact 2026-04-22T02:45:31Z ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO19115:2003/Cor 1 2006 https://doi.org/10.5065/HAXS-5936 Atlanta Metro Heat Exposure d010031 2025-07-25 publication Lin, Tzu-Shun author Newman, Andrew J. author NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research publisher Increasing extreme heat weather is likely to raise the risk of acute kidney injury, which is characterized by a precipitous decline in kidney function. Kidney diseases in heat exposure have been investigated using ambient temperature data collected from individual monitoring stations or spatially gridded atmospheric reanalysis products. These datasets, however, are insufficient for studying heat exposure studies in urban areas because they do not accurately capture the effects of variations in land surface, particularly the 'urban heat island', which temperatures are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas and can amplify extreme heat events in cities and disproportionately affect public health. Here, we first develop a 1 km^2 resolution of meteorology dataset for 2010-2023 using a fully coupled atmosphere-land-urban modeling system, WRF-urban, over the Atlanta metropolitan area with comprehensive maps of urban types from the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification scheme. We then applied a multivariate bias correction technique to the WRF-urban temperature and moisture variables. WRF-urban is able to reproduce the extreme high and low temperatures near the surface in urban areas by utilizing the LCZ maps that classify different urban types. Furthermore, temperature bias is effectively mitigated while temperature-moisture covariance is preserved by employing the bias correction technique. We also compute many common heat exposure indices such as the heat index, HUMIDEX, globe temperature, normal effective temperature, apparent temperature, wet bulb globe temperature, Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), and wet bulb temperature. The dataset will be useful to quantify relationships between short-term heat exposure and hospitalizations, or other health outcomes, as well as to offer inputs for quantitative risk assessment and economic evaluation of heat-health implications that can improve case management decisions. completed datahelp@ucar.edu pointOfContact notPlanned dataset https://gdex.ucar.edu/images/ds_logos/default_200_200.png Logo thumbnail from URL png HDF5/NetCDF4 dataset Resource Type 2021-03-30 revision 4.4 DataCite Metadata Working Group orginator resourceTypeGeneral WRF > Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2026-04-15 revision 23.7 NASA Global Change Master Directory orginator Valids List: Platforms EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION > DOWNWELLING SHORTWAVE RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE INDICES > HEAT INDEX EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICES > HUMIDITY INDEX EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES > ALBEDO EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES > EMISSIVITY U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2026-04-15 revision 23.7 NASA Global Change Master Directory orginator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License None eng utf-8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 2010-01-01 2023-12-31 NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange datahelp@ucar.edu https://gdex.ucar.edu distributor 529243.39 https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010031/ https Dataset Description Related Link information https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010031/dataaccess/ https Data Access Related Link download none asNeeded