Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

DOI

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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.228
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=2adb0c83-4653-4337-af28-f75c63ab7c74
Provenance
Creator Dirk Nikolaus , Karger,; Olaf, Conrad,; Jürgen, Böhner,; Tobias, Kawohl,; Holger, Kreft,; Rodrigo Wilber , Soria-Auza,; Niklaus E., Zimmermann,; H. Peter , Linder,; Michael, Kessler,
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference WSL, ClimEx; Swiss National Science Foundation, 20BD21_193907; Swiss National Science Foundation, 20BD21_184131
Rights CC0-1.0; Creative Commons Zero - No Rights Reserved (CC0 1.0)
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 2.1
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-180.000W, -90.000S, 180.000E, 90.000N); global