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.

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Identification

File identifier
wdc-climate.de:3504396 XML
Hierarchy level
collection
Online resource
Resource identifier
code

CHELSA_v1
code

doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1
Metadata language

eng; USA
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GeoTIFF
Projection
 

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Coupled resource

Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Coupled resource
 
 

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Keywords

  • Precipitation
Keywords

  • Temperature
Keywords

  • global climatology
 
 

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Begin
1980-01-01
End
2013-12-31
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Date (Publication)
2016-09-21
 

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Responsible organization (s)

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Organisation name

University of Zurich
 

Responsible organization (s)

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Organisation name

University of Zurich
 

Metadata information

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Organisation name

University of Zurich
Organisation name

University of Zurich
Date stamp
2016-07-14T16:23:48
Metadata language

eng; USA
 
 

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Conformance class 1: invocable

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Conformance class 2: interoperable

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Limitation
 

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