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Free 102 Years of Monthly Climate Data
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on Friday June 16, @09:18AM
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Pierre Marchand writes "Dear All,
Here is a link to free and easy on-line access to 102 years of monthly climate data through either a webmap or direct input of coordinates. The coverage is global.
http://dw.iwmi.org/dataplatform/ClickandPlot.aspx
Please kindly pass the link around in the community to people you know could be interested. The rationale behind this service is to provide easy access to location specific climate queries – so that you don’t have to download the whole world’s coverage when you actually just need one or a few location(s) ;^) – for data rich countries there might be other local datasets that are prefered but for data poor countries this is a must.
This service is part of IDIS, the water, food and environment data sharing portal. As indicated in the available metadata this dataset was made open to the public by the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, UK. Full credit and description is given in the metadata.
Best regards,
Pierre
PS this service uses a popup and was designed to be used with MS Internet Explorer - we are aware there are issues with Firefox and Safari (Mac) – sincere apologies for this – cross-browser compliance is on top of our to-do list."
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