SAFARI 2000 Daily Rainfall Totals for Mongu, Zambia, 1999-2002

Description

This data set contains daily rainfall totals (mm) from Mongu, in the Western Province of Zambia. The data were collected with a British standard 5 inch diameter rain gauge in a yard 30 m away from the Meteorological Department building near the Mongu Airport (north of downtown and approximately 20 km from the Kataba Local Forest where the permanent 30 m Mongu tower site is located). Rainfall readings were taken by ZMD staff each morning at 06:00 GMT. These data form the official government rainfall record for Mongu.The data files consist of 3 files, one for each year (July to Jun). Each files contains monthly columns with totals for each day of the month as well as a monthly total. The data files are stored as ASCII text files in comma-separated-value (csv) format.

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21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F785
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/safari2k/field_campaign/mongu_daily_rainfall/
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/785
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/safari2k/field_campaign/mongu_daily_rainfall/comp/mongu_daily_rainfall_readme.pdf
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21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/S2K/guides/mongu_daily_rainfall.html

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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