LGM

Variables used to quantify the climate and topography of Peninsular India and Sri Lanka during the Last Glacial Maxima. Provided data include the bioclimatic variables ('lgm1' to 'lgm19'), as extracted from the 'WorldClim' database (for definitions see: http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim). Further information about WorldClim at Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1276. The variables Altitude-MIN, Altitude-MAX, and Range are from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Data available from the U.S. Geological Survey.