CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.0)

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CHELSA_v1.0 (http://chelsa-climate.org/) is a high resolution (30 arc sec, ~1 km) climate data set for the earth land surface areas. Version 1.0 is a first release. It includes monthly and annual mean temperature and precipitation patterns for the time period 1979-2013. CHELSA_v1 is based on a quasi-mechanistical statistical downscaling of the ERA interim global circulation model (http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/era-interim) with a GPCC (https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/gpcc.html) and GHCN (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnm/) bias correction. Specifications: High resolution (30 arcsec, ~1 km) Precipitation & Temperature Monthly coverage 1979 - 2013 Incorporation of topoclimate (e.g. orographic rainfall & wind fields). Downscaled ERA-interim model. Allows calculation of derived parameters based on monthly values such as length of dry periods etc.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1
Metadata Access https://dmoai.cloud.dkrz.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=iso19115&identifier=oai:wdcc.dkrz.de:iso_3504396
Provenance
Creator Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger; Olaf Conrad; Jürgen Böhner; Tobias Kawohl; Holger Kreft; Rodrigo Wilber Soria-Auza; Niklaus E. Zimmermann; H. Peter Linder; Michael Kessler
Publisher World Data Center for Climate (WDCC)
Publication Year 2016
Funding Reference info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNSF//146906/CH//Unraveling the mechanisms determining the diversity of tropical plant communities: examples from the early diverging land plants info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNSF//147630/CH//Testing the limits and constraints of species radiations
Rights CC BY 4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Language English
Resource Type collection ; collection
Format GeoTIFF
Size 97065 MB
Version 1
Discipline Atmospheric Sciences; Climatology; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-180.000W, -90.000S, 180.000E, 90.000N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-12-31T00:00:00Z