This page I hope will become a resource for 1) Recording the existence of publically available data we may find useful, 2) Downloading it, and 3) Parsing the data in various languages, avoiding some terrible mistakes on the way. I have a backlog of datasets to document - they'll get added here in the due course of updating them, which is sometimes triggered by someone asking me to do so. So please do.
Demography
Population Density
| Name
|
Geography
|
Spatial resolution
|
Longitude Range
|
Latitude Range
|
Timepoint
|
| Landscan
|
Global
|
1/120º x 1/120º
|
-180..+180
|
-90..+90
|
Yearly updates since 2003
|
Weather and Climate
Precipitation
| Name
|
Description
|
Temporal resolution
|
Start
|
End
|
Geography
|
Spatial resolution
|
Longitude Range
|
Latitude Range
|
| CMorph ds502.0
|
Rainfall
|
3-hourly
|
2002/12/07
|
present
|
Global
|
0.25º x 0.25º
|
-180..+180
|
-60..+60
|
| RFE2
|
Rainfall
|
daily
|
2000/10/30
|
present
|
Africa
|
0.1º x 0.1º
|
-20..+55
|
-40..+40
|
| ERA40 Interim - LSP
|
Large Scale Precipitation
|
6-hourly or higher (modelled)
|
1979
|
present
|
Global
|
0.75º x 0.75º
|
-180..+180
|
-90..+90
|
Temperature
| Name
|
Description
|
Temporal resolution
|
Start
|
End
|
Geography
|
Spatial resolution
|
Longitude Range
|
Latitude Range
|
| ERA40 Interim - 2T
|
Air temperature at 2m
|
6-hourly or higher (modelled)
|
1979
|
present
|
Global
|
0.75º x 0.75º
|
-180..+180
|
-90..+90
|
| MODIS -
|
Ground Temperature
|
8-day, (Day and Night)
|
2000
|
present
|
Global
|
|
|
|