Climactic data derived from remotely sensed, daily weather parameters (NASA DAYMET): Maricopa County, AZ (2000-2016)

overview There is considerable interest in using climatic variables and
bioclimatic predictors not only in ecological species distribution
models but in interdisciplinary studies of urban environments. We
compiled a downloadable geodatabase of monthly environmental
variables on a 1km x 1km spatial resolution including raw climate
variables such as precipitation, minimum and maximum air
temperature, and water vapor pressure obtained from NASA Earth
Science Data and Information System Daily Surface Weather and
Climatological Summaries (DAYMET) for Maricopa County, Arizona. This
geodatabase of environmental variables provides accessible vital
data for the entire Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological
Research (CAP LTER) study area that can be used in an array of
interdisciplinary studies. related data set Annual bioclimatic predictors for Maricopa County (as defined by
Nix, 1986 and Hijmans, 2004) generated from data in this data set
are accessible from:
https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=661 literature cited Hijmans, R.J., Cameron, S.E., Parra, J.L., Jones, P.G. and Jarvis,
A., 2004. The WorldClim interpolated global terrestrial climate
surfaces. Version 1.3. Nix, Henry A., 1986, A biogeographic analysis of Australian elapid
snakes, in Longmore, Richard, ed., Atlas of elapid snakes of
Australia: Canberra, Australian Flora and Fauna Series 7, Australian
Government Publishing Service, p. 4‒15.