TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015.

ABSTRACT: We present TerraClimate, a dataset of high-spatial resolution (1/24°, ~4-km) monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958-2015. TerraClimate uses climatically aided interpolation, combining high-spatial resolution climatological normals from the WorldClim dataset, with coarser resolution time varying (i.e., monthly) data from other sources to produce a monthly dataset of precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed, vapor pressure, and solar radiation. TerraClimate additionally produces monthly surface water balance datasets using a water balance model that incorporates reference evapotranspiration, precipitation, temperature, and interpolated plant extractable soil water capacity. These data provide important inputs for ecological and

SUBMITTER: Abatzoglou JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5759372 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature