Climate Change Knowledge Portal: Observed Climate Data, CRU ts4.07 0.5-degree

The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) is the World Bank's designated climate data service. CCKP offers a comprehensive suite of climate data and products that are derived from the latest generation of climate data archives. CCKP implements a systematic way of pre-processing the raw observed and model-based projection data to enable inter-comparable use across a broad range of applications. Data is available across an expansive range of climate variables and can be extracted per individual spatial units, variables, select timeframes, climate projection scenarios, across ensembles or individual models. Data is available as global gridded or spatially aggregated to national, subnational, watershed, and Exclusive Economic Zone scaled. The Observed Climate Data, CRU ts4.07 0.5-degree dataset, CRU TS (Climatic Research Unit gridded Time Series) is the most widely used observational climate dataset. Data is presented on a 0.5° latitude by 0.5° longitude grid over all land domains except Antarctica. It is derived by the interpolation of monthly climate anomalies from extensive networks of weather station observations. The CRU TS version 4.07 gridded dataset is derived from observational data and provides quality-controlled temperature and rainfall values from thousands of weather stations worldwide, as well as derivative products including monthly climatologies and long term historical climatologies. Data products are derived from the raw data produced by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA). Global gridded NetCDF files can be accessed via https://registry.opendata.aws/wbg-cckp/  Pre-computed statistics for spatially aggregated data is available as API or xls via https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/download-data