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Title:
CRU time series (TS) high-resolution gridded datasets
Version:
4.02
Institutions:
Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
Source:
monthly observations at meteorological stations across the world land areas
History:
2019-05-06: downloaded source from
https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.02/
2019-05-08: estimate saturated vapor pressure using temperature
2019-05-08: calculate relative humidity using saturated vapor pressure and vapor pressure
2019-05-08: converted to ILAMB required netCDF with
https://github.com/mmu2019/Datasets/blob/master/read-rhums-cru.py
References:
Harris, I., P.D. Jones, T.J. Osborn and D.H. Lister (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset,
International Journal of Climatology
,
34(3)
, 623-642,
doi:10.1002/joc.3711
WMO CIMO Guide (2008), ANNEX 4.B. FORMULAE FOR THE COMPUTATION OF MEASURES OF HUMIDITY,
MEASUREMENT OF HUMIDITY
,
Chapter 4
, 163,
https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=3151
Comments:
time_period: 1980-01 through 2017-12
original_temporal_resolution: monthly
original_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree
original_units: hPa
final_temporal_resolution: monthly
final_spatial_resolution: 0.5 degree
final_units: %
Convention:
CF-1.7