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Rainfall distribution and trends of the daily precipitation concentration index in northern Morocco: a need for an adaptive environmental policy. SN APPLIED SCIENCES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-0290-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The Atmospheric Branch of the Hydrological Cycle over the Negro and Madeira River Basins in the Amazon Region. WATER 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/w10060738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Karger DN, Conrad O, Böhner J, Kawohl T, Kreft H, Soria-Auza RW, Zimmermann NE, Linder HP, Kessler M. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas. Sci Data 2017; 4:170122. [PMID: 28872642 PMCID: PMC5584396 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1064] [Impact Index Per Article: 152.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas) data of downscaled model output temperature and precipitation estimates of the ERA-Interim climatic reanalysis to a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm is based on statistical downscaling of atmospheric temperatures. The precipitation algorithm incorporates orographic predictors including wind fields, valley exposition, and boundary layer height, with a subsequent bias correction. The resulting data consist of a monthly temperature and precipitation climatology for the years 1979-2013. We compare the data derived from the CHELSA algorithm with other standard gridded products and station data from the Global Historical Climate Network. We compare the performance of the new climatologies in species distribution modelling and show that we can increase the accuracy of species range predictions. We further show that CHELSA climatological data has a similar accuracy as other products for temperature, but that its predictions of precipitation patterns are better.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dirk Nikolaus Karger
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zurich 8008, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstr 111, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland
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- Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, Hamburg 20146, Germany
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
- Asociación Armonía, Av. Lomas de Arena # 400, Zona Palmasola, Santa Cruz de la Sierra 10260, Bolivia
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zurich 8008, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zurich 8008, Switzerland
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Evaluation of Five Grid Datasets against Radiosonde Data over the Eastern and Downstream Regions of the Tibetan Plateau in Summer. ATMOSPHERE 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos8030056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Miguez-Macho G, Fan Y. The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 2. Influence on seasonal soil moisture and evapotranspiration. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2012jd017540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Miguez-Macho G, Fan Y. The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 1. Influence on seasonal streamflow, flooding and wetlands. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2012jd017539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Wang A, Zeng X. Evaluation of multireanalysis products with in situ observations over the Tibetan Plateau. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Belo-Pereira M, Dutra E, Viterbo P. Evaluation of global precipitation data sets over the Iberian Peninsula. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd015481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Shi X, Wild M, Lettenmaier DP. Surface radiative fluxes over the pan-Arctic land region: Variability and trends. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2010jd014402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Betts AK, Chiu JC. Idealized model for changes in equilibrium temperature, mixed layer depth, and boundary layer cloud over land in a doubled CO2climate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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