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VERY HIGH RESOLUTION INTERPOLATED CLIMATE SURFACES FOR GLOBAL LAND AREAS (2005)
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@MISC{Hijmans05veryhigh,
author = {Robert J. Hijmans and Susan E. Cameron and Juan L. Parra and Peter G. Jones and Andy Jarvis},
title = { VERY HIGH RESOLUTION INTERPOLATED CLIMATE SURFACES FOR GLOBAL LAND AREAS},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
We developed interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas (excluding Antarctica) at a spatial resolution of 30 arc s (often referred to as 1-km spatial resolution). The climate elements considered were monthly precipitation and mean, minimum, and maximum temperature. Input data were gathered from a variety of sources and, where possible, were restricted to records from the 1950–2000 period. We used the thin-plate smoothing spline algorithm implemented in the ANUSPLIN package for interpolation, using latitude, longitude, and elevation as independent variables. We quantified uncertainty arising from the input data and the interpolation by mapping weather station density, elevation bias in the weather stations, and elevation variation within grid cells and through data partitioning and cross validation. Elevation bias tended to be negative (stations lower than expected) at high latitudes but positive in the tropics. Uncertainty is highest in mountainous and in poorly sampled areas. Data partitioning showed high uncertainty of the surfaces on isolated islands, e.g. in the Pacific. Aggregating the elevation and climate data to 10 arc min resolution showed an enormous variation within grid cells, illustrating the value of high-resolution surfaces. A comparison with an existing data set at 10 arc min resolution showed overall agreement, but with significant variation in some regions. A comparison with two high-resolution data sets for the United States also identified areas with large local differences, particularly in mountainous areas. Compared to previous global climatologies, ours has the following advantages: the data are at a
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wiley interscience input data arc min resolution grid cell elevation bias maximum temperature climate element station density thin-plate smoothing spline algorithm following advantage climate data anusplin package high-resolution data set interpolated climate surface 1-km spatial resolution weather station overall agreement previous global climatology enormous variation high uncertainty large local difference cross validation mountainous area independent variable high latitude isolated island elevation variation data partitioning monthly precipitation significant variation data set spatial resolution high-resolution surface united state global land area
