Table 1 Table of gridded datasets.
From: Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification
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 | |
Precipitation | ||
University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit TS v. 4.01 (CRU4p) | Precipitation, monthly at 0.5° | |
The Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations v2.0 (CHIRPS) | Precipitation, monthly at 0.05° | |
Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) | Precipitation, daily at 0.25° | |
TerraClimate | Precipitation, monthly at 1/24° | |
Temperature | ||
University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit TS v. 4.01 (CRU4T) | Temperature, monthly at 0.5° | |
TerraClimate | Temperature, monthly at 1/24° | |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) | Temperature, daily at 0.5° | |
Additional datasets | ||
TerraClimate | Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) used for the calculation of Aridity index (P/PET) | |
Global change in net primary productivity (1981-2003), data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Change in NPP from 1982-2003 | |
Gridded Population of the World version 4 (GPWv4) | Gridded Population data | |
United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index (HDI) | National HDI | |
North American Carbon Program (NACP) Global C3 and C4 SYNergetic land cover MAP (SYNMAP) | C3/C4 vegetation fraction | |
