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4 datasets found

  • CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications in environmental sciences. Here we present the CHELSA-TraCE21k downscaling algorithm to...

    Last updated: June 7, 2023

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    • SERVICE
    • last-glacial-maximum
    • paleo-climate
    • air-temperature
    • glaciers
    • orography
    • precipitation
  • CHELSAcruts - High resolution temperature and precipitation timeseries for the 20th century and beyond

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    CHELSAcruts is a delta change monthly climate dataset for the years 1901-2016 for mean monthly maximum temperatures, mean monthly minimum temperatures, and monthly precipitation...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

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    • climate
    • minimum-temperature
    • air-temperature
    • century
    • climate-layers
    • maximum-temperature
    • free-climate-data
    • precipitation
    • timeseries
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 21, 2022

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    • growing-degree-days
    • precipitation
    • growing-season-length
    • soil-water-balance
    • solar-radiation
    • relative-humidity
    • temperature
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 10, 2021

    • GeoTIFF
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    • climate
    • free-climate-data
    • climate-change
    • precipitation
    • bioclim
    • climate-layers
    • climatology
    • temperature