CHELSA: CHELSA

In adamhsparks/GSODRdata: Climate and Ecological Data for the GSODR Package

Description

CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas) is a high resolution (30 arc sec) climate data set for the earth land surface areas currently hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. It includes monthly mean temperature and precipitation patterns for the time period 1979-2013.

STNID

Unique station ID to link to GSOD data from GSODR

CHELSA_bio1_1979-2013_V1_1

Annual mean temperature [degree C]

CHELSA_bio2_1979-2013_V1_1

Mean diurnal range [degree C]

CHELSA_bio3_1979-2013_V1_1

Isothermality

CHELSA_bio4_1979-2013_V1_1

Temperature seasonality

CHELSA_bio5_1979-2013_V1_1

Maximum Temperature of warmest month [degree C]

CHELSA_bio6_1979-2013_V1_1

Minimum Temperature of coldest month [degree C]

CHELSA_bio7_1979-2013_V1_1

Temperature Annual Range [degree C]

CHELSA_bio8_1979-2013_V1_1

Mean Temperature of wettest quarter [degree C]

CHELSA_bio9_1979-2013_V1_1

Mean Temperature of driest quarter [degree C]

CHELSA_bio10_1979-2013_V1_1

Mean Temperature of warmest quarter [degree C]

CHELSA_bio11_1979-2013_V1_1

Mean Temperature of coldest quarter [degree C]

CHELSA_bio12_1979-2013_V1_1

Annual precipitation amount [mm]

CHELSA_bio13_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation of wettest month [mm]

CHELSA_bio14_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation of driest month [mm]

CHELSA_bio15_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation Seasonality

CHELSA_bio16_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation of wettest quarter [mm]

CHELSA_bio17_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation of driest quarter [mm]

CHELSA_bio18_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation of warmest quarter [mm]

CHELSA_bio19_1979-2013_V1_1

Precipitation of coldest quarter [mm]

CHELSA_prec_1_1979-2013

Mean January precipitation

CHELSA_prec_2_1979-2013

Mean February precipitation

CHELSA_prec_3_1979-2013

Mean March precipitation

CHELSA_prec_4_1979-2013

Mean April precipitation

CHELSA_prec_5_1979-2013

Mean May precipitation

CHELSA_prec_6_1979-2013

Mean June precipitation

CHELSA_prec_7_1979-2013

Mean July precipitation

CHELSA_prec_8_1979-2013

Mean August precipitation

CHELSA_prec_9_1979-2013

Mean September precipitation

CHELSA_prec_10_1979-2013

Mean October precipitation

CHELSA_prec_11_1979-2013

Mean November precipitation

CHELSA_prec_12_1979-2013

Mean December precipitation

CHELSA_prec_1979-2013_land

Mean annual precipitation

CHELSA_temp_1_1979-2013

Mean January temperature

CHELSA_temp_2_1979-2013

Mean February temperature

CHELSA_temp_3_1979-2013

Mean March temperature

CHELSA_temp_4_1979-2013

Mean April temperature

CHELSA_temp_5_1979-2013

Mean May temperature

CHELSA_temp_6_1979-2013

Mean June temperature

CHELSA_temp_7_1979-2013

Mean July temperature

CHELSA_temp_8_1979-2013

Mean August temperature

CHELSA_temp_9_1979-2013

Mean September temperature

CHELSA_temp_10_1979-2013

Mean October temperature

CHELSA_temp_11_1979-2013

Mean November temperature

CHELSA_temp_12_1979-2013

Mean December temperature

CHELSA_temp_1979-2013_land

Mean annual temperature

Usage

CHELSA

Format

An object of class data.frame with 23927 rows and 46 columns.

Note

CHELSA (climatic surfaces at 1 km resolution) is based on a quasi-mechanistic statistical downscaling of the ERA interim global circulation model (Karger et al. 2016). ESA's CCI-LC cloud probability monthly averages are based on the MODIS snow products (MOD10A2).

Source

CHELSA climate layers (http://chelsa-climate.org/)

References

Karger, D. N., Conrad, O., Bohner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R. W., et al. (2016). Climatologies at high resolution for the Earth land surface areas. arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00217.

adamhsparks/GSODRdata documentation built on Sept. 25, 2020, 8 p.m.