Table 2.
Overview of Global Climate Databases.
| Name | Acronyms | Spatial Coverage | Parameter (Number of records) | Resolution | Total number of records compiled | Number of records in the HCLIM dataset after removing duplicates | References | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Earth Data | BEST | Global | ta (3835) | Monthly | 6798 | 1767 | 10 | 46 |
| Tmax (1452) | ||||||||
| Tmin (1511) | ||||||||
| Climatic Research Unit | CRU | Global | ta (1418) | Monthly | 1418 | 1391 | 47 | 48 |
| P (83) | 83 | 82 | ||||||
| Global Historical Climatology Network | GHCN | Global | ta (2870) | Monthly | 3630 | 1049 | 9 | 49 |
| Tmax (372) | ||||||||
| Tmin (388) | ||||||||
| RR (2840) | 2840 | 2654 | ||||||
| P (24) | 24 | 24 | ||||||
| A monthly global paleo-reanalysis (input) | EKF400 | Global | ta (79) | Monthly | 77 | 18 | 5 | 50 |
| P (101) | 101 | 91 | ||||||
| MSLP (39) | 39 | 30 | ||||||
| RR (76) | 76 | 76 | ||||||
| The International Surface Pressure Databank | ISPD | Global (mostly Europe) | P (163) | Subdaily | 163 | 118 | 51 | 52 |
| MSLP (258) | 258 | 159 | ||||||
| International Surface Temperature Initiative | ISTI* | Global | Ta (7129) | Monthly | 12398 | 2526 | 53 | 54 |
| Tmax (2634) | ||||||||
| Tmin (2635) |
*Supplementary Fig. 2.