Dataset
Temperature data from 23 stations on Kilimanjaro (East Africa) over three years
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2016-02-08
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-02-08
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 2 Files | 4MB
Abstract
Data were collected under the NERC funded project - The role of land-use change on influencing mountain climate on Kilimanjaro, East Africa (NE/J013366/1) - lead by Dr Nicholas Pepin (University of Portsmouth) which investigated the influence of land-use on surface climate (temperature and moisture availability) on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.
Temperature measurements were taken at hourly intervals at 23 stations on Mount Kilimanjaro between September 2012 and September 2015. Specific station locations (elevation and lat/long) are stated in the data and are ordered in a transect across the mountain from South-West over the top to North-East.
Two of the stations have both ground level and air level sensors (hence there are 25 readings not 23).
Additional information about station locations and missing data can be found in a PDF on the CEDA archive.
Citable as: Pepin, N. (2016): Temperature data from 23 stations on Kilimanjaro (East Africa) over three years. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bf8d6babeb904fbbaff7e279f9c0db02/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: temperature, relative humidity, Kilimanjaro, mountain
Details
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Provided by project PI for archival at CEDA |
| Data Quality: |
Few data gaps due to datalogger issues but overall the data is in good shape (i.e. most is good quality)
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| File Format: |
BADC-CSV format
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| Metadata for Kilimanjaro datasets |
Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| HOBO U23-001 dataloggers (University of Portsmouth) | Deployed on: Transect of 23 stations located on Mount Kilimanjaro |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Date of observation
- names: Date of observation
- long_name: Observation number
- names: Observation number
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Albion
- names: Temperature degC at station Albion
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach1
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach1
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach10
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach10
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach2
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach2
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach3
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach3
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach4
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach4
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach5
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach5
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach6
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach6
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach6a
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach6a
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach7
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach7
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach8
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach8
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mach9
- names: Temperature degC at station Mach9
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mbahe
- names: Temperature degC at station Mbahe
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Moshi
- names: Temperature degC at station Moshi
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Mweka
- names: Temperature degC at station Mweka
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong1
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong1
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong2
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong2
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong3
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong3
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong4
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong4
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong5
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong5
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong6
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong6
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong6a
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong6a
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong7
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong7
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong8
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong8
- long_name: Temperature degC at station Rong9
- names: Temperature degC at station Rong9
- long_name: Time of observation
- names: Time of observation
Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2012-08-10T12:00:00
End time:
2015-09-07T13:00:00
Geographic Extent
-2.9610° |
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37.2370° |
37.5070° |
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-3.3160° |
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