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- September 19, 2024
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Description
High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas) data of downscaled temperature and precipitation to a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm is based on statistical downscaling of atmospheric temperatures. The precipitation algorithm incorporates orographic predictors including wind fields, valley exposition, and boundary layer height, with a subsequent bias correction.
CHELSA data published in EnviDat includes the deprecated version 1.2 (originally published under 10.5061/dryad.kd1d4). Please use the current 2.1 version.
Paper Citation:
Karger DN. et al. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas, Scientific Data, 4, 170122 (2017) doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.122.
Resources
- GeoTIFF CHELSA V2.1 (current)
- GeoTIFF CHELSA V1.2 (deprecated)
- PDF CHELSA Technical Documentation
Additional information
- Identifier
- 2adb0c83-4653-4337-af28-f75c63ab7c74@envidat
- Issued date
- July 3, 2018
- Modified date
- September 19, 2024
- Publisher
- EnviDat
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- English
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- Landing page
- https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/chelsa-climatologies
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