CHELSA 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.

 
Citation proposal
(2016) . CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.0). https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/wdc-climate.de:3504396
 

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wdc-climate.de:3504396   XML
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CHELSA_v1
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doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1
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eng; USA
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  • Precipitation
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  • Temperature
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  • global climatology
 
 

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2016-09-21
 

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University of Zurich
 

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University of Zurich
 

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University of Zurich
Organisation name
University of Zurich
Date stamp
2016-07-14T16:23:48
Metadata language
eng; USA
 
 

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