Surface Climate Parameter | Units | File Name | min | max | ||
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Daily mean temperature | tmp | °C | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_tmp.txt | -18.10 | 35.00 | |
Daily minimum temperature | Tmn | °C | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_tmn.txt | -23.20 | 27.90 | |
Daily maximum temperature | tmx | °C | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_tmx.txt | -13.25 | 42.75 | |
Days with ground-frost | frs | days/month | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_frs.txt | 0.00 | 31.00 | |
Precipitation | pre 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 days | wet | days/month | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_wet.txt | 0.00 | 29.50 | |
Snowfall | ||||||
Evaporation | ||||||
Potential Evapotranspiration | pet | mm/day | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_pet.txt | 0.00 | 11.02 | |
Snow water-equivalent / Surface snow amount | ||||||
Fractional snow cover | ||||||
Vapour pressure | vap | hPa | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_vap.txt | 1.35 | 28.32 | |
Sunshine duration | sund | hours/day | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_sund.txt | 0.00 | 14.16 | |
10-meter wind speed | wnd | m/s | crucl20_europe_1961_1990_wnd.txt | 0.50 | 9.40 |
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 |