New App: Climatic zones
Import climatic zones from
climatic_zones.txt
(points to original_data_files/climate_ascii.txt)
Climatic zones in ~9 km resolution were obtained from the eusoils project.
The data were output to ascii text format by:
Dr Katrina Sharps
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, UK
Tel. + 44 (0)1248 374518 (direct)
Tel. + 44 (0)1248 374500 (reception)
E-mail: katshar@ceh.ac.uk
The ASCII output (climate_ascill.txt) are in the following format:
columns: 4320
rows: 2160
x lower-left corner: -180
y lower-left corner: -90
cell size: 0.08333 degrees (9.25 km in latitude)
missing data: -9999
The climate zones are as follows:
1 Warm Temperate Moist
2 Warm Temperate Dry
3 Cool Temperate Moist
4 Cool Temperate Dry
5 Polar Moist
6 Polar Dry
7 Boreal Moist
8 Boreal Dry
9 Tropical Montane
10 Tropical Wet
11 Tropical Moist
12 Tropical Dry
Data source: http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/RenewableEnergy/
Scripts: extract_climatic_zones.py - reads ascii file and extracts integer value at each station location. Note that latitudes are flipped!