Exposure to extreme heat and its impact on human health is becoming a more frequent concern for many communities and industries. We need reliable data to make robust recommendations and policies around heat stress. But temperature alone doesn’t always give us the full picture. To help make more comprehensive heat stress data more readily available, a new Global Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Baseline layer has been added to ArcGIS Living Atlas providing information about wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which gives us a better understanding of the human impact of high temperatures.
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