NAMMA SENEGAL RAIN GAUGE NETWORK V1

Description

The NAMMA Senegal Rain Gauge Network consisted of 40 rain gauge sites (AMMA 1-40) located in various places throughout Senegal, West Africa. These data files were generated during support of the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign, a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and aircraft to characterize the evolution and structure of African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and Mesoscale Convective Systems over continental western Africa, and their associated impacts on regional water and energy budgets. The Rain Gauge Network consisted of the large-scale rain gauge network. The rain gauges collected one-minute accumulation data. The location and photos of each site can be found in an accompanying PDF document: NAMMA_Raingauge_network.pdf.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 NAMMA Rain Gauge Network Senegal, West Africa https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namsenrg/NAMMA_Raingauge_network.pdf
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/namma/namsenrg/namsenrg_dataset.html
21 NAMMA One-minute Accumulation Rain Gauge data README https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namsenrg/README_gauge
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/namma
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FNAMMA%2FGAUGE%2FDATA201
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=namsenrg

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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