Monthly mean interpolated climatic fields for Kenya (2014)

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Dataset

doi:10.25666/DATAUBFC-2016-08-30-05

Data creator : Pierre Camberlin ^[1] ^[2]

[1] : Laboratoire Biogéosciences (Université Bourgogne Europe)

[2] : Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers - Terre, Homme, Environnement, Temps, Astronomie (Université Bourgogne Europe)

Description :

Long-term mean monthly interpolated climatic data (minimum temperature, maximum temperature, precipitation amounts, parameters of Markov chains and gamma distribution for daily rainfall, solar radiation, relative humidity, wind speed) for Kenya (5.35°S to 4.32°N, 33.70°E to 41.95°E) at a resolution of 0.0417° (about 4.6 km).

Disciplines :

geography, physical (sciences of the universe), meteorology & atmospheric sciences (sciences of the universe)

Keywords :

climate, climatology, precipitation, temperature

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General metadata

Data acquisition date : 2012

Data acquisition methods :

Derived or compiled data :
Gridded interpolated data from previously published or unpublished station observations (long-term mean, various periods covering the years 1951-2010, mostly for the years 1961-1985), using local regression based on elevation and weighted by distance and topographical variables, and kriged residuals

Update periodicity : no update

Language : English (eng)

Formats : application/x-netcdf

Audience : University: master, Research