On behalf of the Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC), we welcome you to Week 8 of our series to promote free GIS and remote sensing resources (webinars, instructional videos, technical manuals, e-books, etc.) to increase capacity, awareness, and skill development for the Pacific Islands geospatial community. Last week, we introduced the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) Voyager project – an online web mapping application that provides visualisation of historic, real-time, and forecasted ocean conditions. This week we will explore other resources for weather and climate data such as the WorldClim website.
Week 8: Are you interested in accessing historical and forecasted weather and climate data across the globe? WorldClim is a free online database of high spatial resolution (up to 30 arcseconds (~1 kilometer)) global weather and climate data that can be used for mapping and spatial modeling. You can download gridded monthly precipitation, temperature (minimum, maximum, and average), solar radiation, wind speed, and water vapor pressure data for historical (near current) and future conditions.
WorldClim data can be found at:
https://www.worldclim.org/data/index.html
We hope that these materials are beneficial to you. Please let us know if you have a free GIS or remote sensing resource that you would like to promote as well so others can learn from them.