World Climate Regions (World Terrestrial Ecosystems, Simplified by UNEP/GRID-Geneva, 2020)

The World Climate Regions establishes the macroclimate regime. The dataset has been originally downloaded from World Terrestrial Ecosystems (https://esri.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=3bfa1aa4cd9844d5a0922540210da25b) and modified for visualization purpose in the frame of the NEAT+ project in MapX with climatic regions being combined as follows:

Existing classes from "Temp_Moist" -> New classes

Boreal Desert, Boreal Dry, Boreal Moist, Polar Desert, Polar Dry, Polar Moist -> Boreal/Polar

Cool Temperate Moist -> Cool Temperate Moist

Cool Temperate Dry and Desert -> Cool Temperate Dry & Desert

Warm Temperate Moist -> Warm Temperate Moist

Warm Temperate Moist, Warm Temperate Desert -> Warm Temperate Dry & Desert

Tropical Desert, Sub Tropical Desert -> Tropical & Sub Tropical Desert

Tropical Dry, Sub Tropical Dry -> Tropical & Sub Tropical Dry

Tropical Moist, Sub Tropical Moist -> Tropical & Sub Tropical Moist

Credits:

Sayre et al. 2020. An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems - Global Ecology and Conservation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989419307231?via%3Dihub

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Date ( Publication )
2016-02-29
Status
Completed
Processor
UNEP/GRID-Geneva - Antonio Benvenuti ( )

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • climate
  • terrestrial
  • ecosystem
Keywords
  • World
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License
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Row
Resolution
0.002245799  degree
Dimension name
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Resolution
0.002245799  degree
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
Yes
Distribution format
  • GeoTiff ( Not set )

OnLine resource
Original resource metadata and download page ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
MapX ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )
OnLine resource
Supplemental information ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

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Dataset
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Metadata

File identifier
a3d6c118-6922-4ade-b255-040d382d7cc4 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2020-06-08T15:47:31
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
UN Environment-GRID Geneva - Antonio Benvenuti ( )

 
 

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Keywords

climate ecosystem terrestrial

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