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CLIMAP Modern

CLIMAP Modern: Modern soil and vegetation characteristics from the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology.

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Datasets and variables

aug CLIMAP MOD aug[sst ]
exposed_soil CLIMAP MOD exposed_soil[percent ]
feb CLIMAP MOD feb[sst ]
glacial_ice CLIMAP MOD glacial_ice[percent ]
relief type CLIMAP MOD relief[ X Y |]
soil type CLIMAP MOD soil[ X Y |]
elevation CLIMAP MOD topo[ X Y |]
vegetation type CLIMAP MOD vegetation[ X Y |]
vegetative CLIMAP MOD vegetative[percent ]
water CLIMAP MOD water[percent ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Longitude grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (179W) to (179E) by 2.0 N= 180 pts :grid
Latitude grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (55S) to (83N) by 2.0 N= 70 pts :grid

References

CLIMAP Project Members, 1984. The last interglacial ocean. Quat. Res. 21: 123-224.

Last updated: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:52:20 GMT