Table 1 Global monthly datasets used for deriving the Köppen-Geiger maps.
From: Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution
Short name | Full name and details | Variable(s) | Temporal span | Spatial resolution | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High-resolution climatic datasets | |||||
CHELSA V1.2 | Climatologies at High resolution for the Earth’s land Surface Areas (CHELSA) V1.2 (http://chelsa-climate.org) | T, P | 1979–2013 | 0.0083° | |
CHPclim V1 | Climate Hazards Group’s Precipitation Climatology (CHPclim) V1 (http://chg.geog.ucsb.edu/data/CHPclim/) | P | 1980–2009 | 0.05° | |
WorldClim V1 | WorldClim V1 (http://www.worldclim.org) | T, P | 1960–1990 | 0.0083° | |
WorldClim V2 | WorldClim V2 (http://www.worldclim.org) | T, P | 1970–2000 | 0.0083° | |
Time-varying datasets used to adjust the climatic data to reflect the 1980-2016 period | |||||
CRU TS V4.01 | Climatic Research Unit (CRU) TimeSeries (TS) V4.01 (https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/) | T | 1901–2016 | 0.5° | |
GPCC FDR V7 | Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) Full Data Reanalysis (FDR) V7 extended using First Guess (https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/gpcc.html) | P | 1951–present | 0.5° | |
Time-varying dataset used to derive the future map | |||||
CMIP5 | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) historical and future (RCP8.5) data for 32 climate modelsa (https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/esgf-llnl/) | T, P | 1850–2100 | Varies | |
