Tag Archives: climate data

Importing WorldClim climate .bil datalayers in GRASS GIS II

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

I uploaded an update to the R script I posted earlier to import data downloaded from WorldClim into GRASS. The main change is that it unzips and imports one grid at a time into GRASS, thus requiring much less free … Continue reading →

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Spatial datasets on the web

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

For my work I am spending much time finding spatial data including environmental, administrative and land use coverage data. I started to record links with short description and keywords in a simple table for future references. I tried out two … Continue reading →

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TACCIMO – a template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Collecting and producing data is one thing, combining it and making it easily accessible and useful for the end-users another. The Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options (TACCIMO) is a nice example of a Web-based tool that … Continue reading →

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Calculating bioclim variables in GRASS GIS

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

A script is provided to calculate Bioclim variables in GRASS GIS on Linux using monthly temperature and rainfall data. Continue reading →

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