Variable: Percentage of tropical climate in 2012

QoG Code: (nunn_tropical)


Dataset: Country Ruggedness and Geographical Data (2012)

Description:

Tropical climate. Using detailed temperature and precipitation data from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia and the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre of the German Nunn and Pugaather Service, Kottek, Grieser, Beck, Rudolf, and Rubel (2006) classify each cell on a 30 arc-minute grid covering the entire land area of the Earth into one of 31 climates in the widely-used Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Based on these data and the country boundaries described above, Nunn and Puga calculate the percentage of the land surface area of each country that has any of the four Köppen-Geiger tropical climates.

Type of variable: Continuous

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Last updated by source: 2010-11-12


Categories:

Environment


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Basic Cross-section - 2024 OECD Cross-section - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 191
Standard cross-section: 191
OECD cross-section: 38


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