A high-resolution (0.25 degree) historical global gridded dataset of monthly and annual cooling and heating degree-days (1970-2018) based on GLDAS data

Monthly and Annual Cooling/Heating degree-days (CDD/HDD) using daily average temperature (°C), and Cooling degree-days using daily average wet-bulb temperature (Twb), based on the following threshold (base) temperatures: CDD, CDDwb: 18, 18.3, 22, 23, 24 and 25 (°C); HDD: 10, 15, 15.5, 16, 17 and 18 (°C). The degree-days are computed using meteorological parameters from the Global Land Data Acquisation System (GLDAS) ver. 2 (@ 0.25 degree global gridded resolution). The dataset referred to as "DegDays_0p25_1970_2018" covers 49 years over the period 1970-2018