ISLSCP II Climate Research Unit CRU05 Monthly Climate Data

Description

This data set contains a mean monthly climatology for several climate variables averaged over the period from 1961 to 1990, and constructed from a data set of station 1961-1990 climatological normals, numbering between 19,800 (precipitation) and 3,615 (windspeed; see New et al, 1999 for details). The station data were interpolated as a function of latitude, longitude and elevation using thin-plate splines. The data comprise a suite of climate elements: precipitation, mean, maximum, and minimum temperature, frost frequency, diurnal temperature range, radiation, wet-day frequency, vapor pressure, wind, and cloud cover. There are 23 files in this data set provided at 0.5 and 1.0 degree spatial resolutions.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1015
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/cru_monthly_mean_xdeg/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ISLSCP_II/guides/cru_monthly_mean_xdeg.html
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1015_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=1015
21 The THREDDS location for this Collection. https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalog/ornldaac/1015/catalog.html
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/cru_monthly_mean_xdeg/comp/1_cru_monthly_mean_doc.pdf
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1015
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/cru_monthly_mean_xdeg/comp/0_cru_mean_readme.txt

Tags

  • topography
  • precipitation
  • land-surface
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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