BetaBetaDataset
To preserve access to the original climate and land cover data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other research groups.
Dataset provides data and information on global gridded climatological variables, global land cover maps, and national and international protected areas. The climatological data include the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) monthly terrestrial surface temperature and precipitation grids at 0.5 degree resolution from 1901-1996, along with temperature and precipitation grids at 10-minute resolution from the CRU and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
This dataset entails continent name, driver of climate change, total precipitation, annual temperature change, climate change, international protected areas, national protected areas, land cover legends (forest, oceans, croplands, urban area), and land use.
The maps were based on daily data from the Vegetation 1 sensor on-board SPOT 4, though mapping of regions required the use of data from additional Earth observing sensors to resolve specific issues.