Identification

Title

Nicholson's Africa Precipitation, monthly 1901-1984

Alternative title(s)

d571000

Abstract

Sharon Nicholson at Florida State University compiled this dataset of monthly rainfall totals for African stations. The period covered is 1901 to 1984.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d571000/

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name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d571000/dataaccess/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS

FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS

GROUND STATIONS > GROUND STATIONS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-23

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-24

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-17

East bounding longitude

51

North bounding latitude

37

South bounding latitude

-35

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Somalia

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Southern Africa > Namibia

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Angola

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Central African Republic

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title

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effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Chad

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Republic

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authority code

title

reference date

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Central Africa > Gabon

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Burundi

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Djibouti

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Eritrea

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia

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authority code

title

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date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Kenya

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Malawi

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authority code

title

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date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Ghana

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authority code

title

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date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Liberia

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authority code

title

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date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Mali

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Mauritania

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effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Niger

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Mozambique

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Rwanda

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authority code

title

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date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Asia > Western Asia > Middle East > Israel

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Asia > Western Asia > Middle East > Jordan

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authority code

title

reference date

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Tanzania

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Uganda

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Zambia

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title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Eastern Africa > Zimbabwe

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authority code

title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Northern Africa > Algeria

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title

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effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Northern Africa > Libya

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan

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title

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Northern Africa > Tunisia

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title

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effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Southern Africa > Botswana

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title

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revision

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2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Southern Africa > Lesotho

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title

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2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

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title

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Southern Africa > Swaziland

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Benin

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Burkina Faso

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Gambia

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Guinea

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2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Guinea-bissau

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title

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revision

effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria

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effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Senegal

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effective date

2015-03-26

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Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Sierra Leone

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authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Togo

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Africa > Western Africa > Western Sahara

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1837-12-01

End position

1999-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1980-01-16

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

(303)-497-1825

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

dattore@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NCAR Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

rdahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://rda.ucar.edu/

name: NCAR Research Data Archive

description: The Research Data Archive (RDA), managed by the Data Engineering and Curation Section (DECS) of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR, contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.

function: downlaod

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-08-04T02:11:16Z

Metadata language