Last updated
September 10, 2021
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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.

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Additional information

Identifier
2adb0c83-4653-4337-af28-f75c63ab7c74@envidat
Issued date
July 3, 2018
Modified date
September 10, 2021
Publisher
EnviDat
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Languages
English
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Landing page
https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/chelsa-climatologies
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