Köppen-Geiger climate classification (Beck et al. 2023)#
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Global Köppen-Geiger climate classes at 1 km to 1°, for five historical 30-year periods (1901-1930 … 1991-2020) and the 2041-2070 / 2071-2099 CMIP6 projections under seven SSPs.
import easysnowdata as esd
aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99) # Mount Rainier
data = esd.climate.koppen_geiger.load(aoi, time="2024-03")
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Sources#
source |
provider |
credentials |
resolution |
extent |
temporal |
latency |
notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
raster_http |
none |
11100 m |
global |
1901-1930 … 1991-2020; 2041-2070 and 2071-2099 projections |
static (2026-01 release) |
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Where each route points#
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Variables#
variable |
units |
dtype |
nodata |
categorical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
— |
uint8 |
0 |
yes (30 classes) |
koppen_geiger_class classes (30)
value |
meaning |
|---|---|
1 |
Af |
2 |
Am |
3 |
Aw |
4 |
BWh |
5 |
BWk |
6 |
BSh |
7 |
BSk |
8 |
Csa |
9 |
Csb |
10 |
Csc |
11 |
Cwa |
12 |
Cwb |
13 |
Cwc |
14 |
Cfa |
15 |
Cfb |
16 |
Cfc |
17 |
Dsa |
18 |
Dsb |
19 |
Dsc |
20 |
Dsd |
21 |
Dwa |
22 |
Dwb |
23 |
Dwc |
24 |
Dwd |
25 |
Dfa |
26 |
Dfb |
27 |
Dfc |
28 |
Dfd |
29 |
ET |
30 |
EF |
Provenance#
Licence · CC BY 4.0
DOI · 10.1038/s41597-023-02549-6
Cite the data as
Beck, H. E., McVicar, T. R., Vergopolan, N., et al. (2023). High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections. Scientific Data 10, 724.
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