WorldClim BIO Variables V1

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

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

Pixel Size
927.67 meters

Bands

Name Units Min Max Scale Pixel Size Description
bio01 °C -29* 32* 0.1 meters

Annual mean temperature
bio02 °C 0.9* 21.4* 0.1 meters

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

Isothermality (bio02/bio07 * 100)
bio04 °C 0.62* 227.21* 0.01 meters

Temperature seasonality (Standard deviation * 100)
bio05 °C -9.6* 49* 0.1 meters

Max temperature of warmest month
bio06 °C -57.3* 25.8* 0.1 meters

Min temperature of coldest month
bio07 °C 5.3* 72.5* 0.1 meters

Temperature annual range (bio05-bio06)
bio08 °C -28.5* 37.8* 0.1 meters

Mean temperature of wettest quarter
bio09 °C -52.1* 36.6* 0.1 meters

Mean temperature of driest quarter
bio10 °C -14.3* 38.3* 0.1 meters

Mean temperature of warmest quarter
bio11 °C -52.1* 28.9* 0.1 meters

Mean temperature of coldest quarter
bio12 mm 0* 11401* meters

Annual precipitation
bio13 mm 0* 2949* meters

Precipitation of wettest month
bio14 mm 0* 752* meters

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

Precipitation seasonality
bio16 mm 0* 8019* meters

Precipitation of wettest quarter
bio17 mm 0* 2495* meters

Precipitation of driest quarter
bio18 mm 0* 6090* meters

Precipitation of warmest quarter
bio19 mm 0* 5162* meters

Precipitation of coldest quarter
* estimated min or max value

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

CC-BY-SA-4.0

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.

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.Image('WORLDCLIM/V1/BIO');
var annualMeanTemperature = dataset.select('bio01').multiply(0.1);
var visParams = {
  min: -23,
  max: 30,
  palette: ['blue', 'purple', 'cyan', 'green', 'yellow', 'red'],
};
Map.setCenter(71.7, 52.4, 3);
Map.addLayer(annualMeanTemperature, visParams, 'Annual Mean Temperature');
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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, berkeley,climate,monthly,precipitation,temperature,weather,worldclim
1960-01-01T00:00:00Z/1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
-90 -180 90 180
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