Data · collection
African Meteorology (GIS Coverage of Precipitation and Winds)
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
New-ID: NBI06 Dataset covers mean annual rainfall distribution, number of wet days, wind speed and velocity.
Description
The Africa Meteorological Dataset documentation The Africa Meteorological dataset is part of the UNEP/FAO/ESRI Database project that covers the entire world but focused on Africa. The maps were prepared by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), USA.
Most data for the database were provided by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service Land and Water Development Division, Italy. This dataset was developed in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Kenya. The base maps used were hand drawn climate maps from FAO.
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All sources were re-registered to the FAO Soil Map of the world (1984) in Miller Oblated Stereographic projection by comparing known features on the basemap and the source maps. The digitizing was done with a spatial resolution of 0.002 inches. The maps were then transformed from inch coordinates to latitude/ longitude degrees.
The transformation was done by an unpublished algorithm (by US Geological Survey and ESRI) to create coverages for one-degree graticules.
Links
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2232848036-CEOS_EXTRA.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2232848036-CEOS_EXTRA.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Air Temperature · Not provided · Precipitation Amount · Rain · Surface Winds
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2232848036-CEOS_EXTRA | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-temperature/surface-temperature/air-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/surface-winds | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/liquid-precipitation/rain | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/precipitation-amount | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |