Aridity index plus major cold climates

Aridity index (P/Pet) derived from IDRISI file with continuous data, reclassified into 6 classes (+ water bodies); The 6th class indicates cold climate derived from Thermal climates (Boreal and Arctic) received from IIASA in 2002. The IDRISI file with Aridity values was received by IIASA on February 2003.

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Date ( Creation )
2003
Edition
first
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Originator
FAO-UN - AGLL (ex-FAO Land and Water Division) - Marina Zanetti ( GIS Expert (Retired) )
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • climate
  • precipitation
  • evapotranspiration
  • Tag_LUS
  • Tag_land
Keywords ( Place )
  • World
Use constraints
Restricted
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
2160
Resolution
5 minutes  ,
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
4320
Resolution
5 minutes  ,
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
OnLine resource
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) website

Hierarchy level
Dataset

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File identifier
f5b98310-88fd-11da-a88f-000d939bc5d8 XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2019-11-22T10:29:28
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
FAO-UN - Land and Water Division (CBL) - ( )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

Tag_LUS Tag_land climate evapotranspiration precipitation

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