I am trying to get the bioclim data for each bioclimatic variable (1-19) per each sampling point that I have. I am able to manipulate the data in R and even get them into a data frame so that I can export them to my main excel data sheet. But when I look at the exported data it seems off. For instance, BIO1 is annual mean temp in celsius, but my locations were assigned values of 94-164. Something here is not adding up, many of the other variables are also quite a bit off from what I would expect. Am I interpreting these values incorrectly (is it not just simply a mean temp?) or when I got the data from worldclim did something go wrong?
I seem to have found an answer thanks to someone over at stackexchange so I figured I would also share here in case others run into a similar issue. Worldclim temperature data is scaled by a factor of 10, meaning the mean annual temperatures I was talking about would have an actual range of 9.4°C-16.4°C. This helps to make file sizes smaller and easier to work with.
The worldclim website is not the easiest to navigate so I will link the exact page with the above info here: https://worldclim.org/data/v1.4/formats.html