Data from: "fastbioclim: an R package for creating custom-time bioclimatic and derived environmental summary variables"

This sample dataset is provided for use with the fastbioclim R package (specifically Example 2) to demonstrate how to generate a time series of bioclimatic-like variables from cloud cover data. It consists of a monthly time series of cloud cover derived from CHELSA v2.1 (Karger et al., 2017). The data spans the period from 1980 to 2018 and has been spatially cropped to the extent of Madagascar.Karger, D. N.; Conrad, O.; Böhner, J.; Kawohl, T.; Kreft, H.; Soria-Auza, R. W.; Zimmermann, N. E.; Linder, H. P.; Kessler, M. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas. Sci. Data 2017, 4, 170122 (20 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122