Historical monthly weather data ¶
Historical monthly weather data ¶

Historical monthly weather data ¶

Historical monthly weather data¶

From this page you can download historical monthly weather data for 1950-2024. These data are downscaled from CRU-TS-4.09 by the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, using WorldClim 2.1 for bias correction.

The variables available are average minimum temperature (°C), average maximum temperature (°C) and total precipitation (mm).

The spatial resolution is 2.5 minutes (~21 km2 at the equator), 5 minutes (~85 km2) or 10 minutes (~340 km2). Each download is a "zip" file containing 120 GeoTiff (.tif) files, for each month of the year (January is 1; December is 12), for a 10 year period. 2.5 minutes years minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation 1950-1959tmin_1950-1959tmax_1950-1959prec_1950-1959 1960-1969tmin_1960-1969tmax_1960-1969prec_1960-1969 1970-1979tmin_1970-1979tmax_1970-1979prec_1970-1979 1980-1989tmin_1980-1989tmax_1980-1989prec_1980-1989 1990-1999tmin_1990-1999tmax_1990-1999prec_1990-1999 2000-2009tmin_2000-2009tmax_2000-2009prec_2000-2009 2010-2019tmin_2010-2019tmax_2010-2019prec_2010-2019 2020-2024tmin_2020-2024tmax_2020-2024prec_2020-2024

5 minutes years minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation 1950-1959tmin_1950-1959tmax_1950-1959prec_1950-1959 1960-1969tmin_1960-1969tmax_1960-1969prec_1960-1969 1970-1979tmin_1970-1979tmax_1970-1979prec_1970-1979 1980-1989tmin_1980-1989tmax_1980-1989prec_1980-1989 1990-1999tmin_1990-1999tmax_1990-1999prec_1990-1999 2000-2009tmin_2000-2009tmax_2000-2009prec_2000-2009 2010-2019tmin_2010-2019tmax_2010-2019prec_2010-2019 2020-2024tmin_2020-2024tmax_2020-2024prec_2020-2024

10 minutes years minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation 1950-1959tmin_1950-1959tmax_1950-1959prec_1950-1959 1960-1969tmin_1960-1969tmax_1960-1969prec_1960-1969 1970-1979tmin_1970-1979tmax_1970-1979prec_1970-1979 1980-1989tmin_1980-1989tmax_1980-1989prec_1980-1989 1990-1999tmin_1990-1999tmax_1990-1999prec_1990-1999 2000-2009tmin_2000-2009tmax_2000-2009prec_2000-2009 2010-2019tmin_2010-2019tmax_2010-2019prec_2010-2019 2020-2024tmin_2020-2024tmax_2020-2024prec_2020-2024

You could cite this dataset as follows: CRU-TS 4.09 (Harris et al., 2020) downscaled with WorldClim 2.1 (Fick and Hijmans, 2017).

Fick, S.E. and R.J. Hijmans, 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 37 (12): 4302-4315.

Harris, I., Osborn, T.J., Jones, P.D., Lister, D.H. (2020). Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset. Scientific Data 7: 109

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