This repository was created to list all datasets used for the conference paper for AGILE 2023: "Extreme heat alerts and impacts across Mozambique 2016 - 2022: gathering evidence from media articles"
Individual excel sheets for the creation of each figure are listed below, including a #readme tab with data transformation steps:
Figure 2: Heat alerts over time Hwalert_figure2.xlsx
Figure 1 & 3: Heat alerts per province Hwalert_figure1_3.xlsx
Figure 4: weather stations Maputo and Cabo Delgado agile_fig4.xlsx
All the data that was used is listed: Mozambique administrative boundaries: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-moz
Dataset 1: Text compiled from media sources 2016-2022 Media_HW_data.1.xlsx
Dataset 2: Weather station data Daily maximum temperatures were obtained from the National Climatic Data Center’s (NCDC) daily summaries (GHCN-Daily) archive for 2016 to 10/05/2022.
This data is openly available through: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/datasearch/daily-summaries).
The parameters were filled in as follows:
- What: “maximum temperature”
- Where: “Mozambique”
This outputs 17 weather stations, from which 11 were selected to cover each province across Mozambique and which included records available up to May 2022. The locations of the selected stations were: Maputo, Xai-Xai, Panda, Inhambane, Chimoio, Beira, Tete, Quelimane, Nampula, Lichinga, and Pemba.
License: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/