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Minimum temperature Version 1.2

Select fileJanuary Min TemperatureFebruary Min TemperatureMarch Min TemperatureApril Min TemperatureMay Min TemperatureJune Min TemperatureJuly Min TemperatureAugust Min TemperatureSeptember Min TemperatureOctober Min TemperatureNovember Min TemperatureDecember Min Temperature

Maximum temperature Version 1.2

Select fileJanuary Max TemperatureFebruary Max TemperatureMarch Max TemperatureApril Max TemperatureMay Max TemperatureJune Max TemperatureJuly Max TemperatureAugust Max TemperatureSeptember Max TemperatureOctober Max TemperatureNovember Max TemperatureDecember Max Temperature

Mean temperature Version 1.2

Select fileJanuary Mean TemperatureFebruary Mean TemperatureMarch Mean TemperatureApril Mean TemperatureMay Mean TemperatureJune Mean TemperatureJuly Mean TemperatureAugust Mean TemperatureSeptember Mean TemperatureOctober Mean TemperatureNovember Mean TemperatureDecember Mean Temperature

Precipitation Version 1.2

Select fileJanuary PrecipitationFebruary PrecipitationMarch PrecipitationApril PrecipitationMay PrecipitationJune PrecipitationJuly PrecipitationAugust PrecipitationSeptember PrecipitationOctober PrecipitationNovember PrecipitationDecember Precipitation

Bioclimatic variables Version 1.2

Select fileAnnual Mean TemperatureMean Diurnal RangeIsothermalityTemperature SeasonalityMaximum Temperature of Warmest MonthMinimum Temperature of Coldest MonthTemperature Annual RangeMean Temperature of Wettest QuarterMean Temperature of Driest QuarterMean Temperature of Coldest QuarterMean Temperature of Warmest QuarterAnnual PrecipitationPrecipitation of Wettest PeriodPrecipitation of Driest PeriodPrecipitation SeasonalityPrecipitation of Wettest QuarterPrecipitation of Driest QuarterPrecipitation of Warmest QuarterPrecipitation of Coldest Quarter

By downloading the data you agree to cite the following peer reviewed article:

Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P. & Kessler, M. (2017) Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Scientific Data 4, 170122.

and: Karger, D. N. et. al Dryad Digital Repository http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kd1d4 (2017)

 

 

 

 

If you want to download the files in floating point accuracy or bulk download via wget scripts, you can also access the files on our file server:
FILE SERVER

Datasets are either available in full floating point accuracy (float) or reduced to 2 bit integers (integer) recommended for users which do not need the full floating point accuracy.

Abbreviations:
temp = monthly mean of daily mean temperature [°C(float),°C*10(integer)]
tmax = monthly mean of daily maximum temperature [°C(float),°C*10(integer)]
tmin = monthly mean of daily minimum temperature [°C(float),°C*10(integer)]
prec = monthly precipitation sums [mm]

CHELSA Version 1.2 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

CHELSA is an ongoing research project and we are updating it continuously. There might still be problems with the datasets and we are happy for any reports of bugs. Known issues can be found here

Projection parameters:

Geographic Coordinate System [EPSG 4326]
WGS84
proj4string= [+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs ]

The files are in 7zip format and can be unzip with freely available programs such as 7zip (Windows, Linux) or Keka (Mac)

The Digital elevation model on which CHELSA is based is GMTED2010, which can be downloaded here:
Download GMTED2010 from the USGS website

 

If you having trouble downloading from this site, alternatively version 1.1 is also available at the World Data Center for Climate at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) under the following link.(you need to register, but the data is free)

CHELSA – World Data Center for Climate

 

Monthly data

For now separate layers for each month from 1979-2013 for precipitation and temperature are available on request only as the dataset is quite large.

Older versions can be found here:

ARCHIVE

 

No warranty or liability

CHELSA is provided without any warranty of any kind whatsoever, either express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The creators of the product shall not be liable for incidental, consequential, or special damages arising out of the use of any data.