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With warm thanks to Qinqin Kong (Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University), who kindly shared the pre-aggregated WBGT rasters from Kong & Huber 2025 directly with GLOBAÏA — a years-long body of computation distilled into the textures this map reprojects.

Data: Kong & Huber (2025), Scientific Data 12:246, doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04527-6. Population: Lebakula et al. (2025), LandScan Global 2024, ORNL, doi:10.48690/1532445.