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Published: 2019-03-07 02:30:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 1332; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 4
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There's a little story behind these maps: While I was reading about North Macedonia on Wikipedia immediately after it officially adopted that name on 2019-02-12, I found that its "Climate" section contained a marvelous map much more detailed than the usual crap. After finding the source (this link for the article, this link for the data, also linked to here ), I discovered that they offered the detail of Adam Peterson/Redtitan 's current extrapolated regional climate maps while covering the entire world like the 0.5°-resolution maps found here and earlier uploaded by Vincent--L as Earth's climates at the end of the 20th century and Earth's climates at the end of the 21th century , along with his derivative works. Specifically, the source offered global climate maps at 0.5° (~60 km/pixel at the equator), 0.083° (~10 km/pixel at the equator), and a jaw-dropping 0.0083° (~1 km/pixel at the equator) resolution. Obviously, I downloaded them immediately, and as they are free to use with credit, I decided to post these on DeviantArt like Vincent--L did with the earlier 0.5°-resolution maps.
As Paint.net and Paint cannot load the latter two .tif files, I converted all of them to the .png format (seriously, why does .tif even exist?). Also, as Sta.sh and DeviantArt restricts you from uploading files of more than 200 megapixels, I am instead uploading the full maps in 0.5°, 0.083°, and 0.025° (~3 km/pixel at the equator) resolution, while uploading the 1 km/pixel resolution maps in 6 "pseudo-hemispheres" or "hexaspheres", which are called from west-to-east and north-to-south: New World, Heartland, Orient, Pacific, 2 Souths, and Downunder.
Here's a key for the map. In the case of these maps, a 0 °C average temperature in the coldest month is used as the dividing line between C and D-type climates, and an 18 °C annual average temperature is used as the dividing line between B[x]h and B[x]k climates.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please say 'em.
Important: If you wish to use the information present on this or make any derivative works, please cite:
Beck, H.E., N.E. Zimmermann, T.R. McVicar, N. Vergopolan, A. Berg, E.F. Wood: Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution, Scientific Data 5:180214, doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.214 (2018).and @-mention or message me (and better yet, inform the authors) so that I can make sure this has been done!
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Comments: 3
This is awesome, Grant!
As a geographer, I'm pretty familiar with the Köppen classification, so I don't always (but still sometimes) need to look up the meaning of the colours. But it might not be a bad idea to add a key to the map itself for people less familiar with it.
Other than that though, no remarks whatsoever! Awesome map!
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Well... read this . (I thought it should have been fairly obvious from the description.) Though I did assemble a key which is linked in the description and could conceivably add to these maps along with any subsequent ones. (For that, deciding the wording was much more difficult than actually creating it, as I wanted it to be applicable to all cases of the climate and not use ecological names like "rainforest" or "tundra".) And I do have my own flaws with these maps, written here and here .
Using the same base map as my other native climate maps, my current project is The 4 Climates , to be followed by Century Days. However, given the tremendous difficulty of finishing such maps (I have no automation or advanced tools), it's possible that I'll finish some of the physical/topographic/climatological maps for my planets Celicia/Yān/Merém/Maryias/"Oiellia" first.
Speaking of fictional planets... If you ever want to create a climate map for a location with climates significantly warmer or cooler than present-day Earth, I wrote a journal about potential extensions to the Koeppen system for worldbuilding .
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