CHELSA-[CMIP5] is a delta change climatological dataset for the years 2041-2060 and 2061- 2080 for mean monthly maximum temperatures, mean monthly minimum temperatures, monthly precipitation amounts, and several derived parameters. We use the delta change method by B-spline interpolation of anomalies (deltas) of the respective CMIP5 GCM dataset. Anomalies were interpolated between all CMIP5 grid cells and are then added (for temperature variables) or multiplied (in case of precipitation) to high resolution climate data from CHELSA V1.2. This method has the assumption that climate only varies on the scale of the coarser (CMIP5) dataset, and the spatial pattern (from CHELSA) is consistent over time. CHELSA- [CMIP5] does not take changing wind patterns, or temperature lapse rates into account, but rather expects them to be constant over time, and similar to the long term averages.

CHELSA V1.2 ( http://chelsa-climate.org/) is a high resolution (30 arc sec, ~1 km) climate data set for the earth land surface areas. It includes monthly and annual mean temperature and precipitation patterns for the time period 1979-2013. Methods are described in http://chelsa-climate.org/wp-admin/download-page/CHELSA_tech_specification.pdf.

CHELSA Version 1.2 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Specifications:

High resolution (30 arcsec, ~1 km)

Precipitation & Temperature

Climatologies for the years 1979 – 2013

Incorporation of topoclimate (e.g. orographic rainfall & wind fields).

All products of CHELSA are in a geographic coordinate system referenced to the WGS 84 horizontal datum, with the horizontal coordinates expressed in decimal degrees. The CHELSA layer extents (minimum and maximum latitude and longitude) are a result of the coordinate system inherited from the 1-arc-second GMTED2010 data which itself inherited the grid extent from the 1-arc-second SRTM data.

Note that because of the pixel center referencing of the input GMTED2010 data the full extent of each CHELSA grid as defined by the outside edges of the pixels differs from an integer value of latitude or longitude by 0.000138888888 degree (or 1/2 arc-second). Users of products based on the legacy GTOPO30 product should note that the coordinate referencing of CHELSA (and GMTED2010) and GTOPO30 are not the same. In GTOPO30, the integer lines of latitude and longitude fall directly on the edges of a 30-arc-second pixel. Thus, when overlaying CHELSA with products based on GTOPO30 a slight shift of 1/2 arc-second will be observed between the edges of corresponding 30-arc-second pixels.

To redistribute the data, please cite the following peer reviewed articles:

<a href=" https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017122"target=_blank>Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P. & Kessler, M. (2017) Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Scientific Data 4, 170122.</a>

<a href=" https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kd1d4"target=_blank>Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P., Kessler, M. (2017) Data from: Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Dryad Digital Repository. </a>

CHELSA – Climatologies at high resolution for the Earth land surface areas. Version 1.2