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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!

Description

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!