This interpolated climate data represents long term average thermal conditions at coarse spatial resolutions only. Hence, many climate forcing factors that operate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions are overlooked. ...Since organisms living close to the ground relate more strongly to these microclimatic conditions than to free air temperatures, microclimatic ground and near surface data are needed to provide realistic forecasts of the fate of such organisms under anthropogenic climate change, as well as of the functioning of the ecosystems they live in. ...