Dataset of urban and surrounding reference rural regions for CORDEX-CORE

Database of urban areas and their rural surroundings for CORDEX-CORE (and CORDEX-EUR-11 for the European domain), covering the cities selected within the framework of the CORDEX FPS URB-RCC. A detailed explanation of the dataset is provided in the preprint article submitted to Scientific Data: Diez-Sierra, J., Quintana, Y., Langendijk, G. S., Milovac, J., Demuzere, M., Nogherotto, R., Pietikäinen, J.-P., Rechid, D., Zazulie, N., Solman, S. A., & Fernández, J. (2025). A global CORDEX-based dataset delineating urban areas and their surroundings to assess climate change on megacities. Sci. Data submitted, (2025). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15568959