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WorldClim current monthly climate data (Turks and Caicos)

WorldClim is a database of global weather and climate data and comprises data for minimum, mean, and maximum temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, water vapor pressure, with the resolution of 30 arc-seconds. It comprises gridded data for historical (near current) conditions for 1970-2000. WorldClim was developed by Robert J. Hijmans, Susan Cameron, and Juan Parra, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Peter Jones and Andrew Jarvis from CIAT, and with Karen Richardson from Rainforest CRC.

The global datasets are available at: https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Last Updated September 28, 2021, 18:00 (UTC)
Created February 8, 2021, 18:31 (UTC)
Region TC
Language eng
Topic Category climate
Temporal Extent Start 1970-01-01
Temporal Extent End 2000-12-31
Dataset Reference Date 2000
Lineage The dataset comprises the spatially interpolated monthly climate data for global land areas at approximately 1 km2 spatial resolution. It includes monthly temperature (minimum, maximum and average), precipitation, solar radiation, vapour pressure and wind speed, aggregated across a target temporal range of 1970-2000, using data from 9000-60000 weather stations. Weather station data were interpolated using thin‐plate splines with covariates including elevation, distance to the coast and three satellite‐derived covariates: maximum and minimum land surface temperature as well as cloud cover, obtained with the MODIS satellite platform. Interpolation was done for 23 regions of varying size depending on station density. The final product was constructed by selecting the best performing model for each region and variable.
West Longitude -180
South Latitude -90
East Longitude 180
North Latitude 90
Spatial Reference System WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name Hidden (personal data protection)
Contact Mail Address Hidden (personal data protection)
Responsible Party Role Hidden (personal data protection)
Access Limitations Restricted, send data request to point of contact
Use Constraints Open
Resource Reference 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 Format tiff
Update Frequency irregular
Accuracy 30 arc seconds
Resource Type Dataserie
Metadata Date 2021-02-16
Metadata Point of Contact Hidden (personal data protection)
Contact Consent Contact details hidden