Koeppen's Climate Classification
The new globally gridded Koeppen climatologies are based on climatological observations (temperature and precipitations) rasterized to grids of 0.5 x 0.5 degrees. They cover 4 different periods and are based on 3 different precipitation datasets. This leads to a total number of 12 rasterized Koeppen climatologies.
The 4 different periods are:
1. 1951 - 2000 (all),
2. 1961 - 1990 (norm),
3. 1951 - 1975 (early),
4. 1976 - 2000 (late).
Source: Mean annual cycles of temperature are always taken from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU, Mitchell and Jones, 2005). Precipitation is taken from GPCC VASClimO data, based on 9,343 stations that provide at least 90% coverage within 1951-2000 (Beck, Grieser and Rudolf, 2005).
All different datasets are converted to the same 0.5 x 0.5 grid, which results from USGS gtopo30. Antarctica and Greenland are left out due to lack of data.
For further information on the global climate grids please refer to the FAO Climpag website at http://www.fao.org/nr/climpag/globgrids/KC_classification_en.asp.
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2006-07-03T14:36:00
- Edition
- Second
- Presentation form
- Digital image
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- temperature
- precipitation
- Tag_climate
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Keywords
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- Agromet
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension size
- 360
- Resolution
- 0.5 Decimal Degree
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension size
- 720
- Resolution
- 0.5 Decimal Degree
- Dimension name
- Vertical
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- OnLine resource
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FAO/Climpag - Climate Impact on Agriculture
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
FAO/Climpag - Climate Impact on Agriculture
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_All.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1951 to 2000 - GeoTIFF Coarse (15 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_All_d.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1951 to 2000 - GeoTIFF Fine (140 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_Norm.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1961 to 1990 GeoTIFF Coarse (15 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_Norm_d.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1961 to 1990 - GeoTIFF Fine (140 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_Early.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1951 to 1975 - GeoTIFF Coarse (15 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_Early_d.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1951 to 1975 - GeoTIFF Fine (140 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_Late.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1975 to 2000 - GeoTIFF Coarse (15 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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Koeppen_CRU_GPCCVASClimO_Late_d.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Koeppen's CRU-GPCC VASClimO data from 1975 to 2000 - GeoTIFF Fine (140 Kb)
- OnLine resource
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legends.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Legends
- OnLine resource
-
Color Tables
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Color Tables
- OnLine resource
-
geonetwork:koeppen_cru_gpccvasclimo_all_36913
(
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)
Koeppen's Climate Classification 1951-2000 (all)
- OnLine resource
-
geonetwork:koeppen_cru_gpccvasclimo_early_36913
(
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)
Koeppen's Climate Classification 1951-1975 (early)
- OnLine resource
-
geonetwork:koeppen_cru_gpccvasclimo_late_36913
(
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)
Koeppen's Climate Classification 1976-2000 (late)
- OnLine resource
-
geonetwork:koeppen_cru_gpccvasclimo_norm_36913
(
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)
Koeppen's Climate Classification 1961-1990 (norm)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- ee977170-00d2-4050-9997-b2dcc3664176 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2020-09-03T10:13:52
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
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Spatial extent
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