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CRU TS

Climatic Research Unit gridded Time Series. Monthly 0.5° station-based climate since 1901.

Ten variables including precipitation, mean, minimum and maximum temperature, potential evapotranspiration and wet-day frequency, interpolated from station anomalies.

Source
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
Resolution
0.5° (about 55 km)
Data type
Raster
Time span
1901–present
Temporal
Monthly
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
NetCDF, ASCII
Coverage
Global land (except Antarctica) (-180, -60, 180, 84)
Licence
Open Government Licence
Provider page
crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/

Cite as. Harris, I., Osborn, T. J., Jones, P., Lister, D. (2020). Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset. Scientific Data, 7, 109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0453-3

Access

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/cru-ts/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record