David S. LeBauer and Kathleen K. Treseder. 2008. Nitrogen limitation of net primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems is globally distributed. Ecology 89:371–379.

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Matlab m-code used to obtain values of MAT and MAP at a point nearest to the study site from the New et al. (2000) 10' climatology when local data were not available.
Ecological Archives E089-020-S1.

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David LeBauer
University of California at Irvine
Department of Earth System Science
Irvine, CA 92054
E-mail: [email protected]

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GlobalClimate.m -- Matlab code

Description

This code returns the mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) for any terrestrial lat × long coordinates using the data set described in New et al (2000).

Input (at prompt): latitude and longitude (in decimal degrees with N and E > 0 and W and S <0)

Output: mean annual precipitation MAP (mm y-1) and mean annual temperature MAT, (degrees C)

References: New, Mark, David Lister, Mike Hulme, and Ian Makin. 2002. A high resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas. Climate Research 21:1–25.

Required data files (should be renamed after downloading):

Tglobal10min.mat:  http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tmc.htm/grid_10min_pre.dat.gz

Pglobal10min.mat:  http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tmc.htm/grid_10min_tmp.dat.gz