Climate refugia for rainforests: Modelled maximum temperature of the warmest month period in the Wet Tropics Bioregion for 2007 - 2008 (MTSRF 2.5ii.4, JCU)
This dataset shows the estimated maximum temperature of the warmest period for the Wet Tropics Bioregion of North Queensland over a 24 month period from January 2007 to December 2008. It was modelled based on weather station data, elevation, foliage cover and distance to the coast. The purpose of this dataset is as a metric for estimating thermal stress on animals living in this region.
Methods:
The maximum temperate was modelled over the region at an 80 m resolution using weather station data with adjustments for elevation, foliage cover and distance from the coast. This allowed the temperature to be estimated for locations where there were no direct measurements of temperature. Models of the maximum temperature for each month of the study were generated. These 24 monthly surfaces were then overlaid and the maximum model temperature for any month was determined for each pixel to generate a summary variable - the maximum temperature of the warmest period (i.e., month).
eAtlas Processing:
The GeoTiff supplied with this dataset was produced as follows:
gdal_translate csbc_05.asc -a_srs "EPSG:4283" -co "TILED=YES" -co "COMPRESS=LZW" -a_nodata -9999.0 WT_JCU_Refugia-max-temp_Jan2007-Dec2008.tif
gdaladdo -r average WT_JCU_Refugia-max-temp_Jan2007-Dec2008.tif 2 4 8 16 32 64
Format:
Data format ASCII Grid: 170MB, 4089 x 6372 pixels, GDA_94, 80 m resolution. This was converted by the eAtlas team to a 33 MB GeoTiff.
References:
A detailed description of data and methods are provided in: Shoo, L.P., Storlie, C., VanDerWal, J., Little, J., Williams, S.E. Targeted protection and restoration to conserve tropical biodiversity in a warming world. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02218.x.
Data Location:
This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\NERP-TE\4.2_Pesticide-effects\
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2008-12-31T00:00:00
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address Principal investigator Shoo, Luke, Dr. Collaborator Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University Williams, Steve, Prof. Voice facsimile stephen.williams@jcu.edu.au
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address Author Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University Williams, Steve, Prof. Voice facsimile Townsville Queensland Australia stephen.williams@jcu.edu.au
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 80
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2007-01-01T00:00:00
- Time position
- 2008-12-31T00:00:00
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
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- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
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Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
License Text
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- A detailed description of data and methods are provided in: Shoo, L.P., Storlie, C., VanDerWal, J., Little, J., Williams, S.E. Targeted protection and restoration to conserve tropical biodiversity in a warming world. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02218.x.
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
- Map showing a preview of the dataset. Maximum temperature of the warmest period in 2007 - 2008
- OnLine resource
- ea:WT_JCU_Refugia-max-temp_Jan2007-Dec2008
- OnLine resource
- Grid data: ASCII Grid format + metadata [Zip 23 MB]
- OnLine resource
- Grid data: Geotiff format + metadata [Zip 31 MB]
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Identifier
- Codespace
- EPSG
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/4584d159-8bc2-4494-876b-12683a1a7b5e
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address Distributor Australian Institute of Marine Science eAtlas Data Manager Voice facsimile Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/4584d159-8bc2-4494-876b-12683a1a7b5e
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-08-01T16:33:39
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-09-18T08:39:26
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018