Time series (1901-2014) of 1-km resolution climate grids for Europe and Mediterranean Basin - the EuMedClim dataset

The EuMedClim dataset provides times series (1901-2014) of climate grids at 30 arc second resolution (~ 1 km2) for Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. An ‘anomaly-approach’ was used to combine the spatial information of Worldclim data (Hijmans et al. 2005) and the temporal information of the CRU TS 3.23 dataset (Harris et al. 2014). The EuMedClim dataset comprises 21 parameters: seasonal and annual mean temperature, mean diurnal temperature range, maximum temperature of the warmest month, minimum temperature of the coldest month, seasonal and annual precipitation, precipitation of the wettest and driest months, and yearly mean, minimum and maximum values of monthly potential evapotranspiration (PET) and precipitation minus PET (drought index). The entire data set is available at http://gentree.data.inra.fr/climate together with R scripts for downloading time series at sampling points and producing climate maps.