air_temperature_degC_1cm_soil_25_shade.zip

Each netCDF file contains 24 layers of global extent, one for each hour of the day (starting at 0:00 hrs) for a given month of the year, at ~15km resolution. Fileset Description: The microclim dataset provides microclimate estimates of conditions above and below ground for each hour of the day for the middle day of each month based on a long-term average climatology.

Details of this dataset are presented in [Kearney et al. 2014]. The dataset comprises a set of NetCDF files with one file per variable per month, each file comprising 24 layers (one for each hour of the day from 0:00 hrs to 23:00 hrs, so layer 13 is 12:00 midday) for the globe (852 rows, 2159 columns, latitudinal extents -58.57 to 83.43 degrees, longitudinal extents -180.00 to 180.00 degrees). For the naming convention, mon is month of the year (1 to 12, where 1 = Jan, 12 = Dec), shd is shade level in % (0, 25, 50, 75, 90, 100), and sub is substrate (soil, rock, sand).