This post highlights a valuable quasi-global (60°S–70°N), high-resolution (0.05°) 2m temperature dataset that can serve as a powerful asset for monitoring regional climate conditions. Provided by the UCSB Climate Hazards Center (CHC), this new dataset has been developed to monitor, understand and analyze extreme temperatures, temperature-driven moisture deficits, and humid heat risks. The Climate Hazards Infrared Temperatures with Stations (CHIRTS) – ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) (CHIRTS-ERA5) builds upon the historical CHIRTS datasets while leveraging the low latency of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)’s ERA5 reanalysis dataset, to provide users with a daily-updated hybrid dataset including several heat-related variables. Read more