Central Asia · 30–57°N, 45–96°E · 250 m resolution

Fine-scale climate refugia
across Central Asia

A high-resolution framework quantifying climatic buffering capacity across the Tian Shan, Pamirs, Altai, and Hindu Kush mountain systems under CMIP6 future projections. Covering ~8 million km² from lowland desert to alpine summit under three emissions scenarios.

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250m
Resolution
~8M km²
Domain area
24
Scenario–decades
3
SSP scenarios
11
Index layers
607
GHCN-D stations
1984
Baseline start
2099
Projection end

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Refugia Layer Explorer
Browse all 11 index layers — CRI, Persistence, RI, NRI, PRI, HFI, and warming deltas — overlaid on a basemap at full 250 m resolution. Toggle opacity, inspect domain statistics, and download GeoTIFFs.
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Manuscript Under review
Bohnett et al. 2026
Mapping climate refugia across Central Asia using high-resolution terrain-informed downscaling. Royal Society Open Science, under review.
Link forthcoming
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Data Coming soon
Full Archive Download
All 24 scenario–decade CRI and component index rasters in ESRI:102025 (Asia North Albers Equal Area Conic) at 250 m. Full archive ~5.5 GB; key layers available individually from the layer explorer.
Available on publication
Study domain & model
30–57°N, 45–96°E
CCLM6-0 / MPI-ESM1-2-HR
Copernicus GLO-30 DEM
CHIRPS v2.0 + CHELSA v2.1
SSP1-2.6 · SSP3-7.0 · SSP5-8.5
Projection: ESRI:102025 (Asia North Albers Equal Area Conic). Downscaled to 250 m using GIDS (Gradient + Inverse Distance Squared) with station-calibrated Gaussian-closure heatwave proxy.
Cite this work
Bohnett, E., Flint, A., Ahmad, B., Rashid, W., Rehan, M., & Flint, L. (2026). Mapping climate refugia across Central Asia using high-resolution terrain-informed downscaling. Manuscript under review at Royal Society Open Science.