EFG T5.5 Hyper-arid deserts – previous maps
T5. Deserts and semi-deserts biome
T5
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Version history
This page provides information about older or alternative versions of indicative distribution map for this ecosystem functional group T5.5 Hyper-arid deserts. Check the current maps here.
- Indicative Map (code: T5.5.IM.alt, version v2.0) replaced
- Indicative Map (code: T5.5.IM.orig, version v1.0) discarded
- Web navigation (code: T5.5.web.orig, version v1.0) requires review
- Web navigation (code: T5.5.WM.nwx, version v1.0) in preparation
Datasets
Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map
- CRU-TS-v4 (Harris et al. 2014).
- Global-AI-PET-v2 (Trabucco and Zomer 2019).
- Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017).
- TerraClimate-2018 (Abatzoglou et al. 2018).
- WAD-2018 (Cherlet et al. 2018).
- NA (UNEP 1992).
Available files
You can download geospatial data for older versions of these maps from the following sources:
T5.5.IM.orig (v1.0): Zenodo repository (EFG map)
T5.5.web.orig (v1.0): GitHub repository
Note that you need to login to some services like mapbox or earthengine, and in some cases you also need to request access to the files.
License information
Indicative maps have been released with a 
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
But see details of dataset licenses below:
| dataset | license_info |
|---|---|
| CRU-TS-v4 | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ |
| Global-AI-PET-v2 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ :: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License |
| Resolve-Ecoregions-2017 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| TerraClimate-2018 | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| WAD-2018 | The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (OJ L 330 :: 14.12.2011 :: p. 39). |
References
References used in these versions of the maps.
- Cherlet, M., Hutchinson, C., Reynolds, J., Hill, J., Sommer, S., von Maltitz, G. (2018) World Atlas of Desertification Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
- Abatzoglou, J.T., S.Z. Dobrowski, S.A. Parks, K.C. Hegewisch (2018) Terraclimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015 Scientific Data 5, 170191 DOI:10.1038/sdata.2017.191
- NA
- Trabucco, Antonio; Zomer, Robert (2019) Global Aridity Index and Potential Evapotranspiration (ET0) Climate Database v2 figshare Fileset DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.7504448.v3
- Dinerstein E, Olson D, Joshi A, Vynne C, Burgess ND, Wikramanayake E, Hahn N, Palminteri S, Hedao P, Noss R, Hansen M, Locke H, Ellis EE, Jones B, Barber CV, Hayes R, Kormos C, Martin V, Crist E, Sechrest W, Price L, Baillie JEM, Weeden D, Suckling K, Davis C, Sizer N, Moore R, Thau D, Birch T, Potapov P, Turubanova S, Tyukavina A, de Souza N, Pintea L, Brito JC, Llewellyn Barnekow Lillesø JP, van Breugel P, Graudal L, Voge M, Al-Shammari KF, Saleem M (2017) An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience 67: 534–545. DOI:10.1093/biosci/bix014. Data-set available on-line
- Harris, I., Jones, P.D., Osborn, T.J. and Lister, D.H. (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset. International Journal of Climatology 34, 623-642 doi:10.1002/joc.3711 Revised appendix