Daily, County-Level Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature, Universal Thermal Climate Index, and Other Heat Metrics for the Contiguous United States, 2000-2020

This data set includes daily, population-weighted mean values of various heat metrics for every county in the contiguous United States from 2000-2020. The dataset methodology, usage notes, and additional citations are published in Scientific Data (see reference below for Spangler et al. [2022]). Minimum, maximum, and mean ambient temperature, dew-point temperature, humidex, heat index, net effective temperature, wet-bulb globe temperature, and Universal Thermal Climate Index are included. Note that Monroe County, Florida (FIPS: 12087) and Nantucket County, Massachusetts (FIPS 25019) are missing due to unavailability of ERA5-Land data for Key West, Florida and Nantucket, MA.

To use these data, assign the data from the .Rds file to a new data frame in R using the readRDS() function. 

Please cite the use of this data set with the following reference. Note that additional citations for specific variables can be found in Table 2.

• K.R. Spangler, S. Liang, and G.A. Wellenius. "Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature, Universal Thermal Climate Index, and Other Heat Metrics for US Counties, 2000-2020." Scientific Data (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01405-3

This data set contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2022), as described and cited in the manuscript referenced above. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. 

This data set is provided “as is” with no warranty of any kind.