BetaBetaDataset
To provide global monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces to be used in ecological and hydrological studies.
These data provide important inputs for ecological and hydrological studies at global scales that require high spatial resolution and time-varying data.
Climate variables are: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, vapor pressure, precipitation accumulation, downward surface shortwave radiation, wind-speed. The derived variables indicators are: reference evapotranspiration, runoff, Actual Evapotranspiration, Climate Water Deficit, Soil Moisture, Snow Water Equivalent, Palmer Drought Severity Index, Vapor pressure deficit.
Climatically aided interpolation by combining high-spatial resolution with coarser spatial resolution from WorldClim Dataset, CRU Ts4.0 and the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA55) respectively.