STEAD (Spanish TEmperature At Daily scale) [Dataset]

Abstract

Spanish TEmperature At Daily scale (STEAD) is a new daily gridded maximum and minimum temperature dataset for Spain. It covers the whole territory of peninsular Spain and Balearic and Canary Islands at a 5x5 kilometre spatial resolution. Daily temperature was estimated for each point of the grid from 1901-01-01 to 2014-12-31 in peninsular Spain and from 1971-01-01 to 2014-12-31 in the Balearic and Canary Islands. The grid was built using a previously reconstructed station-based dataset. The observed temperature information comprised more than 5,000 stations provided by Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) and Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAGRAMA).