<scp>PALEO?PGEM?Series</scp> : A spatial time series of the global climate over the last 5 million years ( <scp>Plio?Pleistocene</scp> )

Motivation Climate change plays an important role in the generation and maintenance of biodiversity by driving processes such as diversification range shifts. As a result, patterns are often found to carry imprints palaeoclimatic changes. However, we still know little about spatial temporal variation climate over scale millennia affecting eco-evolutionary dynamics, mostly because scarcity user-friendly freely available spatio-temporal palaeoclimate series at scales. Here, address this gap presenting PALEO-PGEM-Series, global dataset last 5 Myr, with 1 kyr resolution, spatially downscaled from emulations performed intermediate-complexity atmosphere–ocean general circulation model PALEO-PGEM. PALEO-PGEM-Series holds potential advance our understanding mechanisms behind strong relationship between climate, pressing need given projected responses anthropogenic climatic change. Main Types Variables Contained Spatio-temporal monthly temperature precipitation 17 derived bioclimatic variables Pliocene–Pleistocene, along standard error estimates multiple runs emulator. Spatial Location Grain Global landmasses, 1° × 1°. Time Period Last Myr 1000 year resolution. Major Taxa Level Measurement Not applicable. Software Format Tab-delimited text files accompanying R code derive variables.