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WorldClim

Description WorldClim-2.1​

Interpolated monthly climate data for minimum, mean, and maximum temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, water vapor pressure, and for total precipitation. There are also 19 bioclimatic variables. urls:

Versions​

Citation​

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

Data access and download​

source proyectos/CES/cesdata/env/project-env.sh
mkdir -p $GISDATA/climate/global/WorldClim
cd $GISDATA/climate/global/WorldClim

For the historical data, focusing on 30 arcsecond resolution:

mkdir -p $GISDATA/climate/global/WorldClim/v2.1/Historical
cd $GISDATA/climate/global/WorldClim/v2.1/Historical
wget https://worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html
grep href worldclim21.html | grep "_30s_" > links
wget --continue -b --input-file=links --force-html

For the future climate projections (CMIP6) data, at 30 arcsecond:

mkdir -p $GISDATA/climate/global/WorldClim/v2.1/CMIP6
cd $GISDATA/climate/global/WorldClim/v2.1/CMIP6

wget https://worldclim.org/data/cmip6/cmip6_clim30s.html
grep href  cmip6_clim30s.html | grep ".tif" > links
wget -b --continue --input-file=links --force-html