Chelsa climatology 1979-2013 monthly mean april 2m temperature version 1.0

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Karger, Dirk Nikolaus et al.

Dataset
Summary
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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.
Project
CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas)
Location(s)
World
Additional Information
CHELSA_v1_readme.pdf
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -180 to 180 Latitude -90 to 90
Temporal Coverage
1980-01-01 to 2013-12-31 (calendrical)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Access constraints
registered users
Size
3.48 GiB (3733258609 Byte)
Format
GeoTIFF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
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[ Derived from parent entry - See data hierarchy tab ]
Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Conrad, Olaf; Böhner, Jürgen; Kawohl, Tobias; Kreft, Holger; Soria-Auza, Rodrigo Wilber; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Linder, H. Peter; Kessler, Michael (2016). CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.0). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1

BibTeX RIS
VariableAggregationUnit
air_temperature-at2m-where_landCF
mean over years comment: climatology (mean per month)degC
Contact typePersonORCIDOrganization
Metadata
Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
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University of Zurich

Parent

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

[Entry acronym: CHELSA_temp_4_1979-2013_v1] [Entry id: 3504431]