CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.1)

Project: Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas - CHELSA (http://chelsa-climate.org/) is a high resolution (30 arc sec, ~1 km) climate data set for the earth land surface areas currently under development in coorporation with the Department of Geography of the University of Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner, Dr. Olaf Conrad, Tobias Kawohl), the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Prof. Dr. Niklaus Zimmermann), the University of Zurich (Dr. Dirk N. Karger, Dr. Michael Kessler), and the University of Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Holger Kreft). Version 1.0 is a first release. CHELSA is an ongoing research project and we are updating it continuously. Swiss National Funds (SNF 147630, SNF 146906) Summary: CHELSA_v1.1 (http://chelsa-climate.org/) is a high resolution (30 arc sec, ~1 km) climate data set for the earth land surface areas. It includes monthly and annual mean temperature and precipitation patterns as well as derived bioclimatic and interannual parameters for the time period 1979-2013. CHELSA_v1.1 is based on a quasi-mechanistical statistical downscaling of the ERA interim global circulation model (http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/era-interim) with a GPCC (https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/gpcc.html) and GHCN (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnm/) bias correction.