Meteorological warnings issued by INMET for the Brazilian cities of Belém, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo between 2021 and 2022

<p>The Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology (INMET, from the Portuguese &quot;Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia&#39;&#39;) is the Brazilian government agency responsible for monitoring, analysing and forecasting weather and climate. It provides meteorological warnings to be used by the local-level municipal authorities.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Data Content</strong></p> <p>INMET periodically publishes data on its website and provides them via XML RSS Feed.&nbsp; This dataset was collected from the RSS feeds mentioning the Brazilian cities of Bel&eacute;m located in the state of Par&aacute;, Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state, Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul state, Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro state and S&atilde;o Paulo in S&atilde;o Paulo state from July/2021 to July/2022.</p> <p><strong>Data Structure</strong></p> <p>The description&nbsp;of columns collected from INMET warnings and stored&nbsp;in the warnings file (<em>inmet-meteorological-warnings-1658070001.csv</em>) is presented below. The warnings issued by INMET follow the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). CAP provides an open, non-proprietary digital message format for all types of alerts and notifications [<em>Standard, OASIS (2010). Common Alerting Protocol Version 1.2. Jul, 1, pp. 1-47. <a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.html">http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.html</a> </em>].&nbsp;</p> <p>Columns:</p> <ul> <li><em>CITY</em>: Name of the city for which the warning was issued.</li> <li><em>STATE</em>: The Brazilian acronym for the state in which the city is located, for example, MG for Minas Gerais.</li> <li><em>CITYCODE</em>: Unique numeric code for the city for which the warning was issued.</li> <li><em>IDENTIFIER:</em> Unique identifier to INMET warning.&nbsp;</li> <li><em>RESPONSETYPE</em>: Reaction to the warning.</li> <li><em>URGENCY</em>: Urgency for taking action. For example, &ldquo;Prepare&rdquo;.</li> <li><em>SEVERITY</em>: Severity of the meteorological event. For example, &ldquo;Future&rdquo;</li> <li><em>CERTAINTY</em>: How likely is the event to happen? For example, &ldquo;Observed&rdquo; - Determined to have occurred or to be ongoing; &ldquo;Likely&rdquo; - (p &gt; ~50%); &ldquo;Possible&rdquo; - Possible but not likely (p &lt;= ~50%).</li> <li><em>WARNING</em>: Standardized type of warning. For example, &quot;Aviso de Acumulado de Chuva&quot;, &quot;Aviso de Tempestade&quot;, &quot;Aviso de Decl&iacute;nio de Temperatura&quot;.</li> <li><em>TIMESTAMPDATEONSE</em>: Unix timestamp of the minimum time at which the event is expected to start.</li> <li><em>TIMESTAMPDATEEXPIRES</em>: Unix timestamp of the maximum at which the event is expected to occur or the warning expires.</li> <li><em>COLORRISK</em>: Event colour in hexadecimal following the INMET nomenclature, with yellow meaning potential danger, orange indicating danger, and red indicating great danger.</li> <li><em>BASESOURCE</em>: INMET RSS XML file from which the warning was extracted.</li> </ul>