Data

Data generated by CLARITY

Crowdsourced microclimate records collected at or around outdoor spaces of Venice’s schools, hospitals, University buildings and public parks, on islands and at the mainland, by ground UV recording devices. The generated data consist of the collected daily values of UVR at the recording sites, which will allow for the generation of a record of the local (micro)climate variations for different seasons.

UVR values, both ambiental and personal (individual) were recorded using the (personal) UV dosimeter badges that have been developed to support studies relating UV exposure to human health by Dr Martin Allen (at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand). The performance of the badges relative to standard instrumentation has also been assessed here.

The list of recording sites and data archive are provided in the readme files of archives given at this page. Each dataset consists of UVR records made at 60s or even 8s intervals. Headers of .DAT files provided give details on the recording intervals.  

For more information about data, recording methods and devices see the first version of the Data Management Plan.

Observational data collected outside of CLARITY

European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme funded project PREFACE dataset, consisting of the reconstructed, observed and simulated records and parameters extracted from existing climate databases focusing on the Equatorial Atlantic (see https://preface.b.uib.no/data-results/). 

Other publicly available climate data records, such as the HadCRUT and NASA GISS portals, the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly the National Climatic Data Center, NCDC) Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN, at GHCN data portal), International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere (ICOADS) Data Set, at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Climate Explorer web-application.