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WorldClim v2 Climate Normals
Global gridded climate normals for long-term average temperature, precipitation, and related bioclimatic variables.
Dataset summary
- Provider
- WorldClim
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Temporal coverage
- 1970–2000
- Spatial resolution
- 1 km
- Temporal resolution
- Monthly
- Formats
- GeoTIFF
- Climate variable tags
- Heat, Rainfall, Wind
- Observatory relevance
- North Carolina, Amazon Basin, East Africa, Southeast Asia
Use guidance
- Best for
- Long-term climate context, ecological covariates, and teaching examples where climate normals are appropriate.
- Not best for
- Event-specific exposure windows or short-term epidemiologic time-series analysis.
- Common pitfalls
- Using climate normals as if they represent event-week weather.
- Ignoring the distinction between long-term averages and daily observations.
Variables and notes
- Temp, precip, wind, solar, bio-climatic vars
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.