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

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.

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Alternate title

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.0)
Date (Creation)
2016-07-14
Citation identifier
None
Citation identifier
doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1 / CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.0)
Originator
  University of Zurich - Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Other citation details

doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1
Author
  University of Zurich - Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Author
  University of Hamburg - Olaf Conrad
Author
  University of Hamburg - Jürgen Böhner
Author
  University of Hamburg - Tobias Kawohl
Author
  University of Göttingen - Holger Kreft
Author
  University of Göttingen - Rodrigo Wilber Soria-Auza
Author
  Swiss Federal Institute for Forest - Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Author
  University of Zurich - H. Peter Linder
Author
  University of Zurich - Michael Kessler
Point of contact
  University of Zurich - Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Theme

  • Temperature
Theme

  • Precipitation
Theme

  • global climatology
Language
English

Extent

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Begin date
1980-01-01
End date
2013-12-31
 

Distribution

Distribution

Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( Tagged Image File Format with georeferencing information )

Distributor

Distributor
 

Digital transfer options

Units of distribution

Mb
Transfer size
97065
OnLine resource
http://doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1
 

Quality

Hierarchy level
Series
 

Content

Coverage Description

Attribute description
air_temperature
Content type
modelResult
Descriptor

degC

Coverage Description

Attribute description
air_temperature
Content type
modelResult
Descriptor

degC

Coverage Description

Attribute description
precipitation_amount
Content type
modelResult
Descriptor

kg m-2

Coverage Description

Attribute description
precipitation_amount
Content type
modelResult
Descriptor

kg m-2
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
de.dkrz.wdcc.iso3504396 XML
Hierarchy level
Series
Hierarchy level name

CHELSA_v1
Date stamp
2022-04-25T05:42:09
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115
Metadata standard version

ISO 19139 / DKRZ ISO Simple Profile V1.0
Author
  University of Zurich - Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Author
  University of Hamburg - Olaf Conrad
Author
  University of Hamburg - Jürgen Böhner
Author
  University of Hamburg - Tobias Kawohl
Author
  University of Göttingen - Holger Kreft
Author
  University of Göttingen - Rodrigo Wilber Soria-Auza
Author
  Swiss Federal Institute for Forest - Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Author
  University of Zurich - H. Peter Linder
Author
  University of Zurich - Michael Kessler
Point of contact
  University of Zurich - Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Originator
  University of Zurich - Dr. Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Dataset URI

http://doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v 1

 
 

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Keywords

Precipitation Temperature global climatology

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