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- Title
Climate Dataset for South Africa by the Agricultural Research Council.
- Authors
Moeletsi, Mokhele Edmond; Myeni, Lindumusa; Kaempffer, Ludwig Christian; Vermaak, Derick; de Nysschen, Gert; Henningse, Chrisna; Nel, Irene; Rowswell, Dudley
- Abstract
Long-term, reliable, continuous and real-time weather and climatic data are essential for efficient management and sustainable use of natural resources. This paper describes the weather station network (WSN) of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa, including information on instrumentation, data retrieval and processing protocols, calibration and maintenance protocols, as well as applications of the collected data. To this end, the WSN of the ARC consists of over 600 automatic weather stations that are distributed across the country to cover a wide range of agro-climatic zones. At each weather station, air temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, solar irradiance, wind speed and direction are monitored and archived on an hourly basis. The main objective of this WSN is to archive climate information for South Africa as well as supply the agricultural community with weather data to support decision-making. Dataset: https://www.arc.agric.za/arc-iscw/Pages/Agrometeorology-Reports.aspx Dataset License: CC-BY
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; NATURAL resources; METEOROLOGICAL stations; ELECTRONIC data processing; RAINFALL
- Publication
Data (2306-5729), 2022, Vol 7, Issue 8, p117
- ISSN
2306-5729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/data7080117