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Data description paper
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09 Dec 2025
Data description paper |
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Mexico's High Resolution Climate Database (MexHiResClimDB): a new daily high-resolution gridded climate dataset for Mexico covering 1951–2020
Jaime J. Carrera-Hernández
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Instituto de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Querétaro, México
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Mexico's High Resolution Database (MexHiResClimDB) provides gridded, high-resolution data (600 m) of daily, monthly and yearly precipitation and Tmin, Tmax, Tavg for the 1951–2020 period. With this new database it was possible to summarize extreme events of precipitation and temperature in Mexico and to show that there is an undeniable warming trend in Mexico; however, further studies are needed in order to pinpoint the areas where climate change is having a profound impact.
Mexico's High Resolution Database (MexHiResClimDB) provides gridded, high-resolution data (600...
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