CHELSA Bioclim
Bioclimatic variables are derived variables from the monthly mean, max, mean temperature, and mean precipitation values. They are developed for species distribution modeling and related ecological applications. They represent annual trends (e.g., mean annual temperature, annual precipitation) seasonality (e.g., annual range in temperature and precipitation) and extreme or limiting environmental factors (e.g., temperature of the coldest and warmest month, and precipitation of the wet and dry quarters). A quarter is defined as a period of three months (1/4 of the year). The code follows those of Worldclim and ANUCLIM
When using the data, you agree to cite the respective original peer-reviewed publication AND the respective dataset (Why are data citations neccessary?):
Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, P., Kessler, M. (2017). Climatologies at high resolution for the Earth land surface areas. Scientific Data. 4 170122. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122
Karger D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E,, Linder, H.P., Kessler, M.. Data from: Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Dryad Digital Repository.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.5061/dryad.kd1d4