Hello, I wish to download the CHIRPS-ERA5 data from CHIRTS-ERA5 | Climate Hazards Center - UC Santa Barbara . I wish to download WBGT, Tmax, TMin and Heat Index for a given set of countries and periods. I have tried to use the chirps r package to download it but it won’t work. From the website, I can’t also download the WBGT netcdf files for some reason - it’s empty. Does anyone have a way around this? Also the Early Warning Explorer link does not work - I have tried different browsers without any success. Also, I see that the WBGT and HI are tiff files, which while not an issue, are and stored recorded daily, effectively making downloading them manually cumbersome. Is there a way arount this? I badly needed this data as I plan to use it to merge to the DHS IPUMS data for analysis of heat effect on some health outcomes.
Thank you,
Paul
You may find this guide on flexible workflows with CHIRTS temperature data useful. It outlines how to merge IPUMS DHS data with CHIRTS data, both with a manual download of the CHIRTS data, and via the chirps package in R.
Hello Isabel,
Thank you for your response. I have actually been using that guide and found it extremely useful in merging the environmental data with the IPUMS data set. However, the chirps R package works with only the CHIRPS and CHIRTS data set - which are limited in climate variables. I want to download WGBT and the heat index which are available as tiff in the CHIRTS-ERA5 data set (managed by the same research hub managing CHIRPS and CHIRTS). This is a different data set and I was wondering if it’s possible for the chirps package or the chirts package to download that data as manual download of the tiff is too cumbersome and practically impossible - the data is daily and I need for a period of about 10 years - that’s >3650 downloads. This is the data I want: CHIRTS-ERA5 | Climate Hazards Center - UC Santa Barbara , quite different from that used in the tutorial you shared.
Thank you,
Paul
IPUMS does not produce the R chirps package and the CHIRTS data do not come from IPUMS, so your questions are beyond the scope of IPUMS User Support staff members’ expertise. I would suggest reaching out to Climate Hazards Center directly to request support with their data and R package. One of our Global Health research staff provided this link to yearly NetCDF files that you may find helpful.
Hello Isabel,
Thank you for your response. Yes, I am actually able to download and use the Tmax and Tmin datasets (though I use the CHIRTS-daily dataset). I am still unable to download the WBGT and Heat Index from CHIRTS-ERA5 as shared with you in the link. It appears to me there is no easy way around this at the moment except downloading the WBGT and HI datasets which are tiff and are daily, quite an enormous task for a 10-year period (about 3650 downloads per variable and over 7300 for the two variables).
Thank you once again for your patience. Should anything new come up, I’d appreciate if you could let me know.
Paul