Table 1.
Table of gridded datasets.
| Dataset | Description | References |
|---|---|---|
| Vegetation | ||
| Global Inventory for Mapping and Modeling Studies (GIMMSv3.1 g) | NDVI, 15 day at 1/16° aggregated to monthly using the max of the valid values | 35 |
| Precipitation | ||
| University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit TS v. 4.01 (CRU4p) | Precipitation, monthly at 0.5° | 72–76 |
| The Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations v2.0 (CHIRPS) | Precipitation, monthly at 0.05° | 77,78 |
| Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) | Precipitation, daily at 0.25° | 79 |
| TerraClimate | Precipitation, monthly at 1/24° | 80 |
| Temperature | ||
| University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit TS v. 4.01 (CRU4T) | Temperature, monthly at 0.5° | 66–70 |
| TerraClimate | Temperature, monthly at 1/24° | 80 |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) | Temperature, daily at 0.5° | 81 |
| Additional datasets | ||
| TerraClimate | Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) used for the calculation of Aridity index (P/PET) | 80 |
| Global change in net primary productivity (1981-2003), data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Change in NPP from 1982-2003 | 1 |
| Gridded Population of the World version 4 (GPWv4) | Gridded Population data | 27 |
| United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index (HDI) | National HDI | 82 |
| North American Carbon Program (NACP) Global C3 and C4 SYNergetic land cover MAP (SYNMAP) | C3/C4 vegetation fraction | 61 |