TerraClimate - 4km - Monthly¶
Description¶
Climate and climate water balance dataset for terrestrial surfaces based on WorldClim and CRU Ts4.0 and JRA55
Climate Engine details¶
- Dataset type
- Climate/Hydrology
- Climate Engine ID
- TERRACLIMATE
- Documentation
- https://support.climateengine.org/article/87-terraclimate
Dataset details¶
- Scale
- 4km
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Coverage
- Global
- Start year
- 1958
- End year
- Present
Earth Engine collection details¶
- Earth Engine asset
- IDAHO_EPSCOR/TERRACLIMATE
- Earth Engine asset URL
- https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/IDAHO_EPSCOR_TERRACLIMATE
- Earth Engine source catalog
- Earth Engine Catalog
Variables¶
API variable docs: #terraclimate
| Name | Units |
|---|---|
| Average Temperature | K |
| Climatic Water Balance (PPT-ETo) | mm |
| Evap. Demand Drought Index Hargreaves (EDDI) | N/A |
| Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) | N/A |
| Maximum Temperature | mm |
| Minimum Temperature | mm |
| Palmer Drought Severity Index | mm |
| Potential ET Hargreaves | mm |
| Potential ET Thornthwaite | mm |
| Potential Water Deficit Hargreaves | mm |
| Precipitation Accumulation | mm |
| Reference Evapotranspiration | mm |
| Runoff | mm |
| Snow Depth | mm |
| Snow Water Equivalent | mm |
| Soil Moisture | W/m2 |
| Soil Moisture | mm |
| Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) | N/A |
| Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index Hargreaves (SPEI) | N/A |
| Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index Thornthwaite (SPEI) | N/A |
| Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) | N/A |
| Vapor Pressure | kPa |
| Vapor Pressure Deficit | kPa |
| Water Deficit | mm |
| Wind Speed | m/s |
References¶
- Abatzoglou, J.T., Dobrowski, S.Z., Parks, S.A., and Hegewisch, K.C., 2018, TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015: Scientific Data, v. 5, article number 170191, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.191.
Website: http://www.climatologylab.org/terraclimate.html
Terms of use¶
The data set is in the public domain as licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain (CC0) license.