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Tabulated list of climate parameters:
CRU CL 2.0

Surface Climate ParameterUnitsFile Nameminmax
Daily mean temperaturetmp°Ccrucl20_europe_1961_1990_tmp.txt-18.1035.00
Daily minimum temperatureTmn°Ccrucl20_europe_1961_1990_tmn.txt-23.2027.90
Daily maximum temperaturetmx°Ccrucl20_europe_1961_1990_tmx.txt-13.2542.75
Days with ground-frostfrsdays/monthcrucl20_europe_1961_1990_frs.txt0.0031.00
Precipitationpre
pred
mm/month
mm/day
crucl20_europe_1961_1990_pre.txt
crucl20_europe_1961_1990_pred.txt
0.00
0.00
422.70
14.09
Rain dayswetdays/monthcrucl20_europe_1961_1990_wet.txt0.0029.50
Snowfall     
Evaporation     
Potential Evapotranspirationpetmm/daycrucl20_europe_1961_1990_pet.txt0.0011.02
Snow water-equivalent /
 Surface snow amount
     
Fractional snow cover     
Vapour pressurevaphPacrucl20_europe_1961_1990_vap.txt1.3528.32
Sunshine durationsundhours/daycrucl20_europe_1961_1990_sund.txt0.0014.16
10-meter wind speedwndm/scrucl20_europe_1961_1990_wnd.txt0.509.40

Institution:Climatic Research Unit (CRU) - University of East Anglia - UK
Input data:Meteorological observations
Output data:Gridded fields at 10 min lon/lat resolution for each calendar month
Grid_lon spacing:11°55'W, 11°45'W, ..., 41°45'E, 41°55'E (degrees & minutes)
11.917°W, 11.750°W, ..., 41.750°E, 41.917°E (decimal degrees)
Grid_lat spacing:30°05'N, 30°15'N, ..., 71°45'N, 71°55'N (degrees & minutes)
30.083°N, 30.250°N, ..., 71.750°N, 71.917°N (decimal degrees)
Datasets dimensions:324 × 252 × 12
Format:ASCII with each data line (grid zonal row) in Fortran format ='(324f8.2)'
Data order:Data run from West to East, then from South to North, then from Jan. to Dec.
Missing value:-999
Conditions of use:See http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/
Reference(s):New et al., 2002