Characteristics and example applications of a novel urban heat island focused gridded meteorology dataset over the contiguous United States

Andrew James Newman1, Christina P Kalb2, Tirthankar Chakraborty3, Heather Holmes4, Lyndsey Darrow5, Joshua Warren6, Matthew Strickland5, Howard H. Chang7 and Andrew Monaghan8, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory., Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, United States, (4)University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, School of Public Health, Reno, United States, (6)Yale University, School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States, (7)Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States