DATASET IDENTIFICATION ------------------------ - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.228 - URL: https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/chelsa-climatologies TITLE ------- Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas PUBLICATION ------------- EnviDat, 2021 AUTHORS --------- - Dirk Nikolaus Karger (WSL) - Olaf Conrad (University of Hamburg) - Jürgen Böhner (University of Hamburg) - Tobias Kawohl (University of Hamburg) - Holger Kreft (University of Goettingen) - Rodrigo Wilber Soria-Auza (Rodrigo Wilber Soria-Auza) - Niklaus E. Zimmermann (WSL) - H. Peter Linder (University of Zurich) - Michael Kessler (University of Zurich) KEYWORDS ---------- - BIOCLIM - CLIMATE - CLIMATE CHANGE - CLIMATE LAYERS - CLIMATOLOGY - FREE CLIMATE DATA - PRECIPITATION - TEMPERATURE ABSTRACT ---------- High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas) data of downscaled temperature and precipitation to a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm is based on statistical downscaling of atmospheric temperatures. The precipitation algorithm incorporates orographic predictors including wind fields, valley exposition, and boundary layer height, with a subsequent bias correction.   CHELSA data published in EnviDat includes the deprecated version 1.2 (originally published under 10.5061/dryad.kd1d4). Please use the current 2.1 version. __Paper Citation:__ > _Karger DN. et al. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas, Scientific Data, 4, 170122 (2017) [doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.122](https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122)._ DATES ------- - Created: 2017-07-21 - Created: 2021-06-01 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ------------------ The following institutions contributed to finance this dataset: - WSL (ClimEx) - Swiss National Science Foundation (20BD21_193907) - Swiss National Science Foundation (20BD21_184131) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------ - Version: 2.1 - Type: dataset (dataset) - Language: en - License: CC0-1.0 - Location: undefined DATA RESOURCES ---------------- - CHELSA V2.1 (current) (None): CHELSA Version 2.1 based on ERA5 forcings and CMIP6 - CHELSA V1.2 (deprecated) (None): CHELSA Version 1.2 based on ERA-Interim forcings and CMIP5 - CHELSA Technical Documentation (None): Technical documentation document including the variable names, units, scaling, offset, and background. CONTACT PERSON ---------------- Dirk Nikolaus Karger (WSL), mail: dirk.karger@wsl.ch