Weather Stations of Africa : names and coordinates (database SIEREM)

It is the reason why SIEREM was carried out. The dataset will first give us a measure of the extent to which African states at the time covered their country territory, trivially to set up weather stations. Secondly, we noticed that the names of some stations, paired with their coordinates, could be useful to projects as historical colonial state presence in Africa, for geocoding several historical maps and sources, to find information accurate for settlements/schools, villages, concessions and name of weather stations explicitly refer to.

The information generally needed for a meteorological station relates to its geographical position and the date of start observation. A hydrometeorological network is a set of stations distributed in the space to which we measure, for an indefinite period or not, a certain number of parameters concerning one or more hydrological or meteorological phenomena. The network of rain gauges (weather station) is generally well distributed over the sub-basins and overall catchment area.