World Climate Regions

A new approach for developing a new map of standardized global climate regions

The United States Geological Survey has published "An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems" in Global Ecology and Conservation Journal. This work was produced by a team led by Roger Sayre, Ph.D., Senior Scientist for Ecosytems at the USGS Land Change Science Program with the support from The Nature Conservancy and Esri. 


We described this work using two introduction story maps, Introduction to World Ecosystems Map and Introduction to World Climate Regions Map. This story map is an introduction for World Climate Regions Map. You can have more information by accessing the published paper and you can access the dataset by downloading the pro package. 





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World Climate Regions
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A new approach for developing a new map of standardized global climate regions

The United States Geological Survey has published "An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems" in Global Ecology and Conservation Journal. This work was produced by a team led by Roger Sayre, Ph.D., Senior Scientist for Ecosytems at the USGS Land Change Science Program with the support from The Nature Conservancy and Esri. 


We described this work using two introduction story maps, Introduction to World Ecosystems Map and Introduction to World Climate Regions Map. This story map is an introduction for World Climate Regions Map. You can have more information by accessing the published paper and you can access the dataset by downloading the pro package. 
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2019-11-18
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This work is licensed under the Esri Master License Agreement. View Summary | View Terms of Use
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https://climate.esri.ca/datasets/LandscapeTeam::world-climate-regions
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Deniz_Landscape
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Living Atlas – Landscape Content
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Living Atlas – Landscape Content
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Deniz_Landscape
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2020-07-03
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https://climate.esri.ca/datasets/LandscapeTeam::world-climate-regions
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Living Atlas – Landscape Content
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