stevenconnorg/datasets

Documentation of data sources and files, scripts for getting data, & wrangling it

Data sources

Files listed in tables below can be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-TN-iTwt6b3eHRMREpyZU8yWXM?usp=sharing
slides: http://rpubs.com/collnell/CATdata

Domain	Source	Short description	Folder	Data type	Temporal scope	Spatial scope	Source URL
Climate	PRISM	Current & historical climate	PRISM	raster	1895-present; annual, monthly, daily, norms	USA; 4km or 800m	http://prism.oregonstate.edu/
Climate	WorldClim	CMIP5/IPCC current & future climate projections	CMIP5	raster	2050, 2070; monthly	World; 10, 5, 2.5 min(~4km), 30secs	http://worldclim.org/version1
Climate	adaptwest	Ensemble CMIP5 projections	CMIP5_NA	raster	2020, 2050, 2080; monthly	North America; 1 km	https://adaptwest.databasin.org/pages/adaptwest-climatena
Eco	GBIF	Species occurrence data	ENV	coordinates	Day	World; lat/long	http://www.gbif.org/
Eco	USFWS	Endangered species critival habitats	ENV	shapefiles	current	--	https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/table/critical-habitat.html
Political boundaries	US census	state & county boundaries	BOUNDARY	shapefile	--	USA	ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/

Spatial conventions

• SW USA is between 31 & 42 degrees latitude, -124 to -104 longitude
• coordinate system: +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs

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Data files

Climate

PRISM - past & current climate

R package: https://github.com/ropensci/prism
Tutorials: Getting PRISM data in R

Files	Short description	Data type	Source	Temporal scope	Spatial scope	Source URL
--------------	Spatial climate	raster	PRISM	Norms, daily, monthly, annual; 1895-present	USA; 4km or 800m	http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/

CMIP5 - future climate projections, baseline

Documentation: get_CMIP5.R
WorldClim: http://worldclim.org/version1 - 19 GCMs
AdaptWest: https://adaptwest.databasin.org/pages/adaptwest-climatena - ensemble data

Files	Source	Short description	Data type	Temporal scope	Spatial scope	Source URL
all models for all variables	WorldClim	Projected climate & bioclimatic variables	raster	monthly for 2050, 2070	World; 2.5min	http://worldclim.org/cmip5_2.5m
ensemble model	AdaptWest	Projected NA ensemble model	raster	monthly for 2050, 2070	World; 2.5min	http://worldclim.org/cmip5_2.5m

Ecological/environmental Data

Species data

RGBIF package to search and retrieve data from the Global Biodiverity Information Facilty (GBIF).

• CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgbif/index.html
• Tutorial: Getting species occurrence data
  Vertebrate distribution maps: https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/species/data/download/

Vegetation

Critical habitat for endangered species: https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/table/critical-habitat.html
GAP land cover: https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/gaplandcover/data/download/
Current and future land use: http://climate.calcommons.org/lists/datasets

File	Short description	Data type	Data source	Temporal scope	Spatial scope	Source URL
crithab_all_layer	Aggregate critical habitats	shapefile	USFWS	--	USA	--
crithab_all_shapefiles	Individual critical habitats for endangered species	shapefile	USFWS	--	USA	--
GAP_landcover_SWUSA	Vegetation classification	raster	USGS	USA	https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/gaplandcover/data/
end_sp_df	Observations of listed species	csv	GBIF	2007-2017	Western USA	coordinates
listed_sp_ca	Federally listed species in CA	csv	Federal list	CA	----------------	https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/reports/species-listed-by-state-report?state=CA&status=listed

FedData

Federated geospatial data including National Elevation Dataset (NED), Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database and Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). Website: https://github.com/bocinsky/FedData

Political boundaries

Documentation: get_shapefiles.R

File	Short description	Data type	Projection	Files	Data generation	Temporal scope	Spatial scope	Source URL
USA_state	USA state boundaries	shapefile	'+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84'	---------------	2016	---------------	USA	------------------
CA_state	CA state boundary	shapefile	'+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84'	---------------	2016	---------------	CA	------------------
USA_county	USA county boundaries	shapefile	'+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84'	---------------	2016	---------------	USA	------------------
CA_county	CA county boundaries	shapefile	'+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84'	---------------	2016	---------------	CA	------------------
CAPD	CA protected areas	shapefile	'+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84'	holdings, superunit, units	2016	---------------	CA	------------------