9s climatology for continental Australia 1976-2005: BIOCLIM variable suite

Brief description

A suite of 9s resolution BIOCLIM climate surfaces for the Australian continent. This collection represents a 30 year average centred on 1990 for the standard set of 35 BIOCLIM variables.

Data are provided as zipped ESRI float grids: Binary float grids (*.flt) with associated ESRI header files (*.hdr) and projection files (*.prj). After extracting from the zip archive, these files can be imported into most GIS software packages, and can be used as other binary file formats by substituting the appropriate header file.

Additionally a short methods summary is provided in the file 9sClimateMethodsSummary.pdf for further information, including a nomenclature for files.



Lineage: BIOLCIM climate surfaces for the present were calculated in the ANUCLIM 6.1 (Xu and Hutchinson, 2011) 30 year average climate surfaces for Australia (1976-2005), with elevational lapse rate correction applied over the 9s GEODATA digital elevation model (Hutchinson et al , 2008).