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WASCAL Competence Centre, scientific arm of WASCAL, located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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Dogon-kiria-10: WASCAL Donated Automatic Weather Station in niger

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This is a BMBF funded Automatic Weather Station (AWS) donated by WASCAL to Burkina Faso through DMN(Niger) to strengthen the climate observatories of the member countries, co-develop together a regional/transboundary observation network to ultimately contribute to filling the climate data gap in West Africa.

According to the MoU signed with DMN, the data from this AWS should only be used for research, capacity building, and services development. Any commercial use of the data is forbidden.

The metadata and the variables collected from this AWS include the followings:

Manufacturer: NESA
Date of Installation: April 2018
Location: Dogon-kiria(Niger)
Current status: Working
Frequency of measurement: 10 min
Frequency of data transmission to the server: 60 min
Data platform for download: www.wascal-hydromet-net.org
Link to the AWS page: http://wascal-hydromet-net.org/station-details-recent/10

Variables measured as in the data available for download:

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Modified
2021-07-21
Release Date
2021-07-08
Identifier
03302624-f306-4276-9485-28f488837a01
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area
POINT (5.9037780761719 14.297155375985)
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Data Rights
Public Access Level
Public
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Data Scientist
Data Manager
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