| Sector | Non-specific, most | ||||||
| Description | Essential Climate Variable for temperature and basic statistic computations. | ||||||
| End User | Urban planners, health authorities, building engineers, landscape and building architects, general public | ||||||
| Calculation method | ID | Title | Period | Statistical processing | Unit | Threshold | Comment |
| airtemphourly | Hourly air temperature at 2 m aground |
hourly | Raw ECV | °C | Not available yet | ||
| meanairtemp | Mean temperature | one value | Mean temperature for the full period. | °C | Not available yet | ||
| airtempyearlymin | Yearly min temperature for the period | one value | Mean of yearly min temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| airtempyearlymax | Yearly max temperature for the period | one value | Mean of yearly max temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| yearlymean airtemp | Yearly mean of daily temperature range at 2 m above ground |
yearly | Yearly mean temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| yearlymin airtemp | Yearly min of daily temperature range at 2 m above ground |
yearly | Yearly min temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| yearlymax airtemp | Yearly max of daily temperature range at 2 m above ground |
yearly | Yearly maximum temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| monthlymeanairtemp | Monthly mean of daily temperature range at 2 m above ground |
monthly | Monthly mean temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| monthlyminairtemp | Monthly min of daily temperature range at 2 m above ground |
monthly | Monthly min temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| monthlymaxairtemp | Monthly max of daily temperature range at 2 m above ground |
monthly | Monthly max temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| monthlymeanairtempaggr | Monthly mean of daily temperature range agregated over the period |
1 value per month | Mean of the monthly mean temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| monthlyminairtempaggr | Monthly min of daily temperature range agregated over the period |
1 value per month | Mean of the monthly min temperature | °C | Not available yet | ||
| monthlymaxairtempaggr | Monthly max of daily temperature range agregated over the period |
1 value per month | Mean of the monthly max temperature. | °C | Not available yet | ||
| Provenance | Air temperature is an essential climate variable (ECV) computed by the HARMONIE meteorological model.Details about computations for different domains and time periods are given here. | ||||||
| Calculation caveats | Spatial representation: S1 Could be compared to: C1 Could be used with: U1, U2 |
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| Motivation | Air temperature is a base indicator for many applications including heat stress, energy use, planning, architectural design, etc. This can be used to calculate other indicators such as heating (cooling) degree days, tropical nights, and thermal comfort indices. |
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| Experience user | These variables are of use for many additional applications. | ||||||
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