Heat wave tracker: a multi-method, multi-source heat wave measurement toolkit based on Google Earth Engine
A multi-characteristic heat wave framework is used to estimate historical and future projected heat waves across Australia. A Google Earth Engine-based toolkit named heat wave tracker (HWT) is developed, which can be used for dynamic visualization, extraction, and processing of complex heat wave events.
Table 1. Long-term climate data for heat wave measurement.
| Name | Spatial Resolution | Time period |
|---|---|---|
| SILO | 0.05*0.05 | 1920-2020 |
| ERA5 | 0.25*025 | 1979-2020 |
| CPC | 0.5*0.5 | 1979-2020 |
| CMIP5 | 0.25*0.25 | 1950-2099 |
Click the following links to get the access. The corresponding links are:
- SILO: https://www.eodatascience.com/
- CPC: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.cpc.globaltemp.html
- ERA5: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/ECMWF_ERA5_DAILY
- CMIP5:https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/NASA_NEX-GDDP
Figure 1. The model UI, and toolkit link: https://tensorflow.users.earthengine.app/view/heat-wave-tracker
- 2021-01-06
- CPC data missing 2005