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Global Multihazard Mortality Risks and Distribution

Entry ID: CIESIN_CHRR_NDH_MULTI_MRD

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Summary

Abstract: Global Multihazard Mortality Risks and Distribution is a 2.5 minute grid identifying and characterizing the nature of multihazard risk at the global scale. For this study, multihazard considers the hazards posed by cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides and volcanoes. The specific hazards Global Multihazard Mortality Risks and Distribution is a 2.5 minute grid identifying and ...

Purpose: To identify areas of the world at multihazard mortality risk and to gain insight into the nature of this risk posed.

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Description: Data download page.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 85.0

S: -58.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR)/Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University, and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank

Dataset Title: Global Multihazard Mortality Risks and Distribution

Dataset Release Date: 2005

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

Dataset Publisher: Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR)/Columbia University

Version: 1.00

Data Presentation Form: raster, map

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ndh-multihazard-mortality...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2000-01-01

Stop Date: 2000-01-01

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EQUATORIAL

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > MID-LATITUDE

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 0.0417 Decimal degrees
Longitude Resolution: 0.0417 Decimal degrees
Horizontal Resolution Range: 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Instrument

ANEMOMETERS

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

SAFARI 2000 > The Southern African Regional Science Initiative Project

CWIC > CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog

Ancillary Keywords

EOSDIS

ALBEDO

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC)

Data Center URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/
Dataset ID: 760

Data Center Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE Phone: (865) 574-7447 Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov Contact Address: ORNL DAAC User Services Office Oak Ridge National Laboratory City: Oak Ridge Province or State: TN Postal Code: 37831-6407 Country: USA