DIVA-GIS

&
Climate Data

Robert J. Hijmans

International Rice Research Institute,

Los Baños, Philippines
DIVA-GIS
• Biodiversity
• Free
• Simple to use
• Demand driven development
• Version 5.2

http://www.diva-gis.org
Data exploration
Patterns of diversity and turnover
Geo-Cluster
Model Species Distribution
Known Modeled: Modeled:
Distribution Current climate Future climate
www.diva-gis.org - program, manual, and data
Climate Data
‘Current’ climate

CRU-TS
WorldClim

Future climate
 Estimates of
current (past) climate
Precipitation (mm)

Temperature (°C)
ºC / year
Temperature change during
the 20th century
CRU-TS
ºC / year

Temperature change during

1985-2002
 Future climate: GCMs

David Viner, CRU

Future climate: GCMs

Different models:
HADCM, ECHAM, CCCMA, CSRIO

Different scenarios
ISO92, IPCC SRES

Spatial resolution
Different models, different results

CCMa HADCM

ECHAM GFDL
Change in mean annual
temperature (°C) SRES A2
 Emission
scenarios

A2a HadCM
model

B2a
Change in mean annual
temperature (°C)
Duffy et al. LLNL
Statistical downscaling, “delta method”
Temperature change Current climate

Downscaled
& calibrated
future climate
http://www.worldclim.org/

Other climate data tools:

•Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT)

•Educational GCM (EdGCM)

•Also have a look at the IPCC website

•IPCC Data Distribution Centre