This dataset can be loaded, processed, visualized and/or analyzed with the free open-source software Paraview ([http://www.paraview.org][1]).
It consists in a 3D spherical mesh mapping a model of convection in the Earth's mantle. The fields projected on the mesh are: temperature, viscosity and continent. The numbers are in non-dimensional units. For the temperature, a value of 1 corresponds to 2130K.
It was produced using the convection code Stagyy (Tackley, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2008). From an chosen initial temperature field, I computed the evolution of the flow from 200 Ma to the present-day imposing plate kinematics from Seton et al. (Earth Science Reviews, 2012), and updating continental configuration at 80Ma to take into account continental growth for instance.
Since initial conditions are not known, and since the parameterisation I used is not exactly Earth-like, the model cannot be considered as a very good approximation of Earth's temperature field.
This calculation is detailed in a manuscript revised for Tectonophysics ([https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.06.028][2]).
[1]: http://www.paraview.org
[2]: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.06.028