Historical temperature and precipitation data for the conterminous United States used in TCSI statistic in the 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment

This data publication contains the gridded historical (1951-2000) climate data for the conterminous United States that were used in the Terrestrial Climate Stress Index (TCSI), as part of the 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment. Data include two georeferenced TIF files containing stacked raster files with a 4 kilometer resolution grid of 1) mean annual temperatures (degrees Celsius) and 2) total annual precipitation (millimeters). This package also includes the tabular version of these data that includes the temperature and precipitation values for each raster grid cell.
These data were used to explore the impact of climate and vegetation change on wildlife habitat for the 2020 RPA Assessment.
For more information regarding the analysis of climate change on wildlife habitat using these climate data, see Flitcroft et al. (2023).

本数据集出版物收录了美国本土1951年至2000年的网格化历史气候数据，该数据作为2020年《资源规划法案》（Resources Planning Act, RPA）评估工作的一部分，被用于陆地气候胁迫指数（Terrestrial Climate Stress Index, TCSI）的相关研究。数据集包含两份带地理参考的TIF文件，其内为堆叠栅格文件，分辨率为4千米，分别涵盖1）年平均气温（单位：摄氏度）与2）年总降水量（单位：毫米）。本数据包还附带上述数据的表格形式版本，包含每个栅格网格单元对应的气温与降水数值。上述数据曾被用于探究2020年RPA评估中气候与植被变化对野生动物栖息地的影响。如需了解更多关于使用该气候数据分析气候变化对野生动物栖息地影响的相关研究内容，请参阅Flitcroft等人（2023）的研究成果。