Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
CRU TS gridded climate time series
Long global gridded monthly climate dataset derived from station observations, covering precipitation, temperature, potential evapotranspiration, vapour pressure and cloud cover from 1901.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesContains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Restrictions
- Distributed through the CEDA archive, which requires free registration.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
- Geographic coverage
- Global land areas
- Temporal coverage
- 1901 onwards
- Resolution
- 0.5° grid
- Update frequency
- monthly
- Formats
- netcdf, csv
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- Yes
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- precipitation, temperature, evaporation