Hosted datasets
The indices offered through Climdex have been already calculated for several observational datasets. Although these source datasets are described as gridded analyses, we often offer data for the individual stations too. For the most up-to-date and quality-controlled dataset use HadEX3. If you need near-realtime data use GHCNDEX. HadEX2 is hosted here for comparison studies.
We offer time series for stations where available, whereas for gridded products we also offer average maps, trend maps and raw yearly data across any spatial domain. These products are variously available as text files, NetCDF files and image files.
Please remember to make appropriate reference to the linked publications when using these datasets.
Third-party datasets hosted by us
We also host the following datasets on climdex, but they are not part of the climdex.org project.
Name |
Description |
Resolution |
Years |
Reference |
Access |
AGCD v1 |
Australian Gridded Climate Data (AGCD) / Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) is the Bureau of Meteorology's official dataset for climate analyses covering the variables of rainfall, temperature (maximum and minimum) as well as vapour pressure at daily and monthly timescales. The dataset provides consistent temporal and spatial analyses across Australia for each observed data variable. This accounts for spatial and temporal gaps in observations. Where possible, the gridded analysis techniques provide useful estimates in data-sparse regions such as central Australia.
|
0.25°×0.25° |
1900-2022 |
Australian Bureau of Meteorology 2020 |
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BEST |
BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature) provides high-resolution land and ocean time series data and gridded temperature data. Their peer-reviewed methodology incorporates more temperature observations than other available products, and often has better coverage. BEST is updated frequently on their website.
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1°×1° |
1880–2019 |
Rohde et al. (2013) |
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APHRODITE |
APHRODITE’s (Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation) gridded precipitation is a set of long-term (1951 onward) continental-scale daily products that is based on a dense network of rain-gauge data for Asia including the Himalayas, South and Southeast Asia and mountainous areas in the Middle East.
We currently offer observations over SE Asia (lat: -14.75°24°N, lon: 90.25°144.75°E)
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.25°×0.25° |
1951–2016 |
Yatagai et al. (2012) |
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External datasets
Pre-computed Climdex indices for a number of climate models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project — Phase 3 (CMIP3) and Phase 5 (CMIP5) are available from Environment Canada.
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References
- Donat, M. G., L. V. Alexander, H. Yang, I. Durre, R. Vose, R. J. H. Dunn, K. M. Willett, E. Aguilar, M. Brunet, J. Caesar, B. Hewitson, C. Jack, A. M. G. Klein Tank, A. C. Kruger, J. Marengo, T. C. Peterson, M. Renom, C. Oria Rojas, M. Rusticucci, J. Salinger, A. S. Elrayah, S. S. Sekele, A. K. Srivastava, B. Trewin, C. Villarroel, L. A. Vincent, P. Zhai, X. Zhang and S. Kitching. 2013a. Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2098–2118. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50150.
- Donat, M.G., L.V. Alexander, H. Yang, I. Durre, R. Vose, J. Caesar. 2013b. Global Land-Based Datasets for Monitoring Climatic Extremes, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 997–1006. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00109.1.
- Dunn, R. J. H., Alexander, L. V., Donat, M. G., Zhang, X., Bador, M., Herold, N., et al. 2020. Development of an updated global land in-situ-based dataset of temperature and precipitation extremes: HadEX3, JGR: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD032263. doi: 10.1029/2019JD032263.
- Rohde R, Muller RA, Jacobsen R, Muller E, Perlmutter S, et al. (2013) A New Estimate of the Average Earth Surface Land Temperature Spanning 1753 to 2011. Geoinfor Geostat: An Overview 1:1. doi: 10.4172/2327-4581.1000101.
- Contractor, Stefan 2019. Rainfall Estimates on a Gridded Network based on all station data v1-2019 NCI National Research Data Collection, doi: 10.25914/5ca4c380b0d44 Contractor, Steefan & G. Donat, Markus & V. Alexander, Lisa & Ziese, Markus & Meyer-Christoffer, Anja & Schneider, Udo & Rustemeier, Elke & Becker, Andreas & Durre, Imke & S. Vose, Russell. (2019). Rainfall Estimates on a Gridded Network (REGEN) – A global land-based gridded dataset of daily precipitation from 1950–2013. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions. 1-30. 10.5194/hess-2018-595.
- Yatagai, A., K. Kamiguchi, O. Arakawa, A. Hamada, N. Yasutomi, and A. Kitoh, 2012: APHRODITE: Constructing a Long-Term Daily Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Asia Based on a Dense Network of Rain Gauges. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 1401–1415, 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00122.1.
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology (2020), "Australian Gridded Climate Data ( AGCD ) / AWAP ; v1.0.0 Snapshot (1900-01-01 to 2020-06-30)". doi: 10.4227/166/5a8647d1c23e0.