dataset · Global
CCAFS-Climate Data
High resolution climate data to help assess the impacts of climate change primarily on agriculture. These open access datasets of climate projections will help researchers make climate change impact assessments.
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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Evidence quality: 40.3
Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- climate projections · high resolution climate data for climate change impact assessment, primarily agricultural
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Global
- Resolution docs-verified
- High resolution (spatial and temporal values not stated)
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Every three months
- Formats docs-verified
- ARC GRID · ARC ASCII (compressed)
- Access docs-verified
- Open access; no AWS account required (anonymous S3 access via AWS CLI); licence CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use only)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Climate change impact assessment for agricultural receptors and land-use strategy · Long-term projected temperature and rainfall context for drought or water-resource screening (non-commercial research only) · Background climate-projection review for environmental baseline reports
- Audience llm-inferred
- climate scientists · hydrologists · agronomists · environmental consultants · researchers
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Non-commercial licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) restricts use in paid consultancy work · Primarily agriculture-focused; may not suit drainage or flood-design inputs without further validation · No time span or spatial resolution value stated in the docs · Raw ARC GRID/ASCII files need GIS tooling to use · Quarterly update cycle, not real-time
Evidence
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.