Climate parameters of the Arid Central Asian Data Base (ACADB) for surface brGDGT samples

This file contains the climate parameters extracted from the CGIAR database (Trabucco and Zomer, 2018), from original publications when available and from the worldclim 2.1 extrapolated climate database (Fick and Hijmans, 2017). The bioclimate parameters are the Aridity Index (AI, no unit), the Mean Annual Air Temperature (MAAT in °C), the Mean Annual Precipitation (MAP in mm.yr-1) and seasonal parameters such as the Mean annual temperatures Above Freezing (MAF in °C), Mean Precipitation for Cold and Warm Quarter (MPCOQ and MPWAQ in mm.yr-1) and Mean Temperature for Cold and Warm Quarter (MTCOQ and MTWAQ in °C).