Table 3 Period Scale of 19 bioclimatic variables.

From: Continuous decline of climate fluctuations in the Kunlun–Pamir Plateau from the perspective of the bioclimatic variables

Bioclimatic variables

Period scale (years)

Corresponding year

BIO1

8–12

1968–1998

BIO2

1–3

1968–1975

BIO3

1–5

1962–1980

8–13

1970–2013

BIO4

2–16

1972–2015

BIO5

2–5

1985–2000

BIO6

1–5

1967–1978

3–8

1977–2015

8–16

2000–2018

BIO7

1–5

1964–1980

3–8

1995–2015

5–16

1970–2005

BIO8

3–8

1961–1992

16–20

2005–2022 (1980–2005)

BIO9

4–5

1968–1978

12–18

1985–2008

1–5

2007–2012

BIO12

1–2

1968–1971

5–9

1963–1990

1–4

1998–2018

BIO14

1–4

1988–1994

BIO15

3–6

1968–1975

BIO17

2–7

1962–1988

BIO18

5–9

1970–1990

BIO19

14–20

1978–2015