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Climatic Research Unit CRU TS 2.1 dataset of gridded month-by-month observed climate (Jan. 1901- Dec. 2002)
Dataset
Summary
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Description:
CRU TS2.1: The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Time-Series (TS) version 2.1 of gridded data of month-by-month variation in climate (Jan. 1901- Dec. 2002).
The CRU TS 2.1 dataset is comprised of 1224 monthly grids of observed climate, for the period 1901-2002, covering the global land surface at 0.5 degree resolution. There are nine climate variables available: daily mean, minimum and maximum temperature, diurnal temperature range, precipitation, wet day frequency, frost day frequency, vapour pressure and cloud cover.
The primary purpose for this dataset is to provide environmental modellers with some of the inputs they require to run their models.
The creator of this data set (Dr. T. D. Mitchell) retains full ownership rights over it. The dataset may be freely used for non-commerical scientific and educational purposes, provided it is described as CRU TS 2.1 and attributed to: Mitchell, T.D., and P.D. Jones (2005): An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high resolution grids. Int. J. Climatol. 25: 693–712, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1181
Coverage
Spatial Coverage:
Global
Start Date:
01 January 1901
End Date:
31 December 2002
Geographic Bounding Box
Lower Left Latitude:
-90
Lower Left Longitude:
-180
Upper Right Latitude:
90
Upper Right Longitude:
180
Provenance
Source:
Data provided to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Data Distribution
Centre for archiving.
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
This data is publically avaliable for download. When using these data you must
cite them correctly using the citation given on the Data Catalogue record.
Format:
TIF
Language:
en
Usage
Resource Creator:
Mitchell, T.D.
Origin
Name:
IPCC Data Catalogue