Environmental data

Climate data

Global:

Chelsa - Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas
Global climate-related predictors - extension of Chelsa with vpd, pet, moisture index, swb, snow index at 30', 1980-2018
Worldclim – global climate layers (current – future – past / resolution 1’, 5’ 10’)
Copernicus - 1km bioclimatic indicators for EU 1979-2018 (biovars, drought, surface energy, veg, etp, soil, wind)
CGIAR-CSI - global climate layers, including aridity, PET and soil-water balance based on worldclim
CliMond – Global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling
ecoClimat - 19 bioclimatic layers + 4 monthly raw variables at 0.5° for pre-industrial, historical, modern and future periods downscaled from CMPI5/PMIP
EC-Earth - Historical (1850-2006) and future simulation (2006-2100) for Ocean and Atmosphere climates
CCAFS - Downscaled layers from future climate models (GCMs) from the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security
NOAA - Reconstructed paleoclimates from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
MOD16 - Global Evapotranspiration data (ET,LE,PET,PLE) for 2000-2014 derived from MODIS at 1km
podaac - Various oceanographical data on ftp of the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
bio-ORACLE - Marine data layers for ecological modelling
GMED - Global marine datasets for species distribution modelling and environment visualisation
MARSPEC - High resolution climatic and geophysical raster grids for the world ocean

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global:

S AGE - Human impacts, land use, ecosystems and water resources data
Land Use Harmonization - set of historical land-use and land-use transitions reconstructions and future RCP scenarios for the time period 1500-2100 at 0.5° resolution
Global Forest Change - Worldwide forest extent, loss and gain (tree>5m) for years 2000-2012 at 30m resolution based on Landsat images
NSIDC - American National Snow & Ice Data Center providing many satellite and field data in the Arctic and Antarctic regions
FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC - Harmonized World Soil Database
EarthEnv - Consensus land cover and 90m DEM
Human Footprint - cumulative impact of direct pressures on nature from human activities at 1km resolution
giemsd15 - Global Inundation Extent from Multi-Satellites at 500m
soilgrids - soil property and class maps of the world at 1 km / 250 m produced using machine learning algorithms.
Theia Land Data Center - Sentinel-2 Level 2A (10m, with atmospheric correction) and Snow cover (20m, masked for clouds).
temporal mapping of global human modification 1990-2017 - from Theobald et al. 2020 (14 stressors, 0.09 km2 res)

Europe:

European Environment agency - tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)
Copernicus - image mosaics, Corine land cover, High res land cover (20m), dem, hydro, settlement

Switzerland:

global:

EarthEnv - Global 1,5,10,100-km Topography
SRTM - DEM at 90m
JAXA-DEM - World Elevation Data at 30m from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
USGS - Elevation, watershed and related variables for the globe at 1km resolution from the US Geological Survey

Europe:

Copernicus - image mosaics, Corine land cover, High res land cover (20m), dem, hydro, settlement

Switzerland:

swissALTI3D, swissSURFACE3D - digital elevation and surface models at 1m resolution
DHM25 - Digital height model at 25m based on 1:25'000 national maps

global:

GEOSS portal - search engine for GIS data
IIASA - GIS data on Energy & climate Change, Food & Water, Poverty and Equity at different extents and resolutions
GECON - Gross cell product (~GDP) at 1°
Global Human Influence Index - 1km resolution. Intergrates population density, built-up areas, nighttime lights, land use/land cover), coastlines, roads, railroads, navigable rivers.

Europe:

European Environment agency - tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)