Yearly Gridded Maximum Temperature (1.0 x 1.0) data Binary File

The temperature data was developed using temperature data of weather stations. A modified version of the Shepard’s angular distance weighting algorithm was used for interpolating the station temperature data into 1◦ latitude × 1◦ longitude grids.

Using the cross validation, errors were estimated and found less than 0.5 ◦C. The data set was also compared with another high resolution data set and found comparable. The data is available in GRD (.grd) format for every year since 1951. Information on daily maximum and minimum temperature is available.