1Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2WorldPop, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; 3Department of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Overview

Variables

1. Mean solar radiation in November

Thirty-year mean solar radiation in November for 1970-2000. WorldClim - Global Climate Data, free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 1970-2000 kJ m-2 day-1 30" (~ 1 km) https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
8021.522 365.6275 7178.948 8712.111

2. Mean solar radiation in February

Thirty-year mean monthly solar radiation in February for 1970-2000. WorldClim - Global Climate Data, free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 1970-2000 kJ m-2 day-1 30" (~ 1 km) https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
9577.912 350.278 8745.129 10427.3

3. Mean precipitation in May

Thirty-year mean monthly precipitation in May for 1970-2000. WorldClim - Global Climate Data, free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS.

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Climatic 1970-2000 mm 30" (~ 1 km) https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
58.2019 13.57296 24.26498 106.1903

4. Pasture area fraction, 2000

Pasture Area fraction in 2000, obtained by combining agricultural inventory data and satellite-derived land cover data. The agricultural inventory data is used to train a land cover classification data set obtained by merging two different satellite-derived products (Boston University’s MODIS-derived land cover product and the GLC2000 data set).

A. Metadata

Type Year Unit Resolution Source
Environmental, land cover 2000 area fraction 5’ (~ 10 km) http://www.earthstat.org/cropland-pasture-area-2000/

B. Summary Statistics

Mean Stdandard deviation Minimum Maximum
0.5142076 0.1598593 0.0074935 0.9326845