CRU TS Version 4
From variable 3.3
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with 2-m temperature available
- reference Harris et al. (2020)
- description of data CRU TS v4.00 (uea.ac.uk)
- source
- CRU/University of East Anglia
- data type
- Gridded observations
- spatial domain
- Global (land only)
- spatial resolution
- 0.5° x 0.5°
- temporal coverage
- 1901–2018
- time step
- Monthly
- data format
- NetCDF
- comments
- It is derived by the interpolation of monthly climate anomalies from weather station observations, using angular-distance weighting. It is using the 1961–1990 period as reference for the anomalies. The resulting gridded anomalies are converted to actual values. Provides values for Tmean and diurnal temperature range. Tmin, Tmax are provided as derived products. CRU TS4.00 is a full release, differing in methodology from the v3.24.01. release.