WorldClim BIO Variables V1

WORLDCLIM/V1/BIO
Dataset Availability
1960-01-01T00:00:00 - 1991-01-01T00:00:00
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.Image("WORLDCLIM/V1/BIO")
Tags
worldclim weather monthly climate temperature precipitation bioclim temperature precipitation diurnal warmest coldest wettest driest seasonality isothermality ucb berkeley

Description

WorldClim V1 Bioclim provides bioclimatic variables that are derived from the monthly temperature and rainfall in order to generate more biologically meaningful values.

The bioclimatic variables represent annual trends (e.g., mean annual temperature, annual precipitation), seasonality (e.g., annual range in temperature and precipitation), and extreme or limiting environmental factors (e.g., temperature of the coldest and warmest month, and precipitation of the wet and dry quarters).

The bands scheme follows that of ANUCLIM, except that for temperature seasonality the standard deviation was used because a coefficient of variation does not make sense with temperatures between -1 and 1.

WorldClim version 1 was developed by Robert J. Hijmans, Susan Cameron, and Juan Parra, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Peter Jones and Andrew Jarvis (CIAT), and with Karen Richardson (Rainforest CRC).

Bands

Resolution
30 arc seconds

Bands

Name Units Min Max Scale Description
bio01 °C -290* 320* 0.1

Annual mean temperature
bio02 °C 9* 214* 0.1

Mean diurnal range (mean of monthly (max temp - min temp))
bio03 % 7* 96*

Isothermality (bio02/bio07)
bio04 °C 62* 22721* 0.01

Temperature seasonality (Standard deviation * 100)
bio05 °C -96* 490* 0.1

Max temperature of warmest month
bio06 °C -573* 258* 0.1

Min temperature of coldest month
bio07 °C 53* 725* 0.1

Temperature annual range (bio05-bio06)
bio08 °C -285* 378* 0.1

Mean temperature of wettest quarter
bio09 °C -521* 366* 0.1

Mean temperature of driest quarter
bio10 °C -143* 383* 0.1

Mean temperature of warmest quarter
bio11 °C -521* 289* 0.1

Mean temperature of coldest quarter
bio12 mm 0* 11401*

Annual precipitation
bio13 mm 0* 2949*

Precipitation of wettest month
bio14 mm 0* 752*

Precipitation of driest month
bio15 Coefficient of Variation 0* 265*

Precipitation seasonality
bio16 mm 0* 8019*

Precipitation of wettest quarter
bio17 mm 0* 2495*

Precipitation of driest quarter
bio18 mm 0* 6090*

Precipitation of warmest quarter
bio19 mm 0* 5162*

Precipitation of coldest quarter
* estimated min or max value

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Citations

Citations:

  • Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005. Very High Resolution Interpolated Climate Surfaces for Global Land Areas. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978. doi:10.1002/joc.1276.

Explore in Earth Engine

var dataset = ee.Image('WORLDCLIM/V1/BIO');
var annualMeanTemperature = dataset.select('bio01');
var visParams = {
  min: -230.0,
  max: 300.0,
  palette: ['blue', 'purple', 'cyan', 'green', 'yellow', 'red'],
};
Map.setCenter(71.72, 52.48, 3.0);
Map.addLayer(annualMeanTemperature, visParams, 'Annual Mean Temperature');
WorldClim V1 Bioclim provides bioclimatic variables that are derived from the monthly temperature and rainfall in order to generate more biologically meaningful values. The bioclimatic variables represent annual trends (e.g., mean annual temperature, annual precipitation), seasonality (e.g., annual range in temperature and precipitation), and extreme or limiting environmental factors (e.g., ...
WORLDCLIM/V1/BIO, worldclim,weather,monthly,climate,temperature,precipitation,bioclim,temperature,precipitation,diurnal,warmest,coldest,wettest,driest,seasonality,isothermality, ucb,berkeley
1960-01-01T00:00:00/1991-01-01T00:00:00
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