CHILI (Continuous Heat-Insolation Load Index)#

chili · theme terrain · live

Topographic heat-load index from ALOS AW3D30 (Theobald et al. 2015), 90 m, 70°N-70°S. Native values are the 0-1 index scaled to 0-255; warm slopes are above 0.767 and cool slopes below 0.448.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
data = esd.terrain.chili.load(aoi)

Credentials

The default route needs earthengine; see the credentials page for the setup.

Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

gee (default)

gee

earthengine

90 m

70°N-70°S

static

—

native values by default (the AOI-relative rescaling of topography.get_chili is opt-in); a DEM-computed heat-load index is the planned credential-free route

Where each route points#

gee — Earth Engine live

CSP/ERGo/1_0/Global/ALOS_CHILI

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

chili

1

float32

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY 4.0

DOI · 10.1371/journal.pone.0143619

Cite the data as

Theobald, D. M., Harrison-Atlas, D., Monahan, W. B., Albano, C. M. (2015). Ecologically-Relevant Maps of Landforms and Physiographic Diversity for Climate Adaptation Planning. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143619.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.terrain.chili.load