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Thermal Climates

Identification info

Title

Thermal Climates

Date

2007-02-16

Date type

Publication: Date identifies when the resource was issued

Edition

3.6

Presentation form

Digital map: Map represented in raster or vector form

Abstract

The raster dataset of thermal climates has a spatial resolution of 5 * 5 arc minutes and is in geographic projection. Information with regard to thermal climates was obtained from the "Derived Soil Properties" of the FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World which contains raster information on soil properties.

Purpose

This database will be used mainly for poverty and food insecurity mapping, particularly for analysing where the people live at global scales in relation to:

- Agroecological zones

- Marginal or productive lands

- Major foodcrop production systems, in particular those important to food security for the rural poor.

Status

Completed: Production of the data has been completed

Point of contact

Individual name	Freddy Nachtergaele
Organisation name	FAO - UN
Position name	Senior Officer
Role	Point of contact: Party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource

Delivery point	Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
City	Rome
Postal code	00153
Country	Italy
Electronic mail address	freddy_nachtergaele@hotmail.it

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary

Descriptive keywords

Thermal Climates , Temperature , Agro Ecological Zones , Tropics, Subtropics, Temperate, Boreal, Polar and Arctic , Digital Soil Map of the World (theme).

Descriptive keywords

World (place).

Access constraints

Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor

Spatial representation type

Grid: Grid data is used to represent geographic data

Language

English

Character set

UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Topic category code

Geoscientific information

Extent

Geographic bounding box

WGS 84

	North bound
West bound	Polygon((-180 -90,180 -90,180 90,-180 90,-180 -90))	East bound
	South bound

Supplemental Information

The thermal climates were obtained through classifying monthly temperatures corrected to sea level. The thermal climates distinguished in global AEZ are the following: tropics, subtropics (2 subtypes), temperate (3subtypes), boreal (3 subtypes) and polar/arctic.

A layer (.lyr) and legend (.avl) file are provided in the data download.

Distribution Information

Transfer options

OnLine resource	Land and Water Digital Media Series (20)
Data for download	Thermal Climates - ESRI GRID dataset

Spatial representation info

Number of dimensions

Dimension name

Row: Ordinate (y) axis

Dimension size

2160

Resolution

Units of measure	,

Dimension name

Column: Abscissa (x) axis

Dimension size

4320

Resolution

Units of measure	,

Dimension name

Vertical: Vertical (z) axis

Resolution

Units of measure	,

Cell geometry

Area: Each cell represents an area

Transformation parameter availability

false

Reference System Information

Code	WGS 1984 - Geographic

Data quality info

Hierarchy level	Dataset: Information applies to the dataset

Metadata

File identifier

0ba2a840-bdd3-11db-a0f6-000d939bc5d8

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Date stamp

2012-02-22T14:03:58

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Contact

Individual name	Emelie Healy
Organisation name	FAO - UN
Role	Author: Party who authored the resource