High-resolution BIOCLIM and ENVIREM grids for Europe in consecutive 100-year bins spanning the last 21,000 years

<p>Here, I provide a dataset of gridded climatic variables at a spatial resolution of 30 arc-seconds for 210 consecutive 100-year bins spanning the period from 21,000 to 0 BP. The dataset includes 19 bioclimatic and 16 ENVIREM variables (described by Title &amp; Bemmels, 2018) commonly used in species distribution modelling. It covers the European continent and adjacent regions within the following boundaries: 32.5&deg;W&ndash;70&deg;E and 32.5&deg;N&ndash;82.5&deg;N.</p> <p>For each 100-year bin, bioclimatic and ENVIREM variables were calculated based on the downscaled and debiased monthly temperature and precipitation simulations of the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3; Collins et al., 2006) as provided by the PaleoView software (Fordham et al., 2017). The downscaling procedure was based on the delta-change method (Ramirez Villejas &amp; Jarvis, 2010). As a baseline climatic data, I used monthly temperature and precipitation grids from the CHELSA database for 1940&ndash;1989 (Karger et al., 2017).</p> <p>A detailed description of the dataset, including the downscaling method applied, can be found in the Technical specification attached to this dataset.</p>