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

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Leba-48: WASCAL Donated Automatic Weather Station in Burkina Faso

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This is a BMBF funded Automatic Weather Station (AWS) donated by WASCAL to Burkina Faso through ANAM (Agence Nationale de la Meteorologie) 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 ANAM, 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: 18 March
Location: Leba(Burkina)
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/48

Variables measured as in the data available for download:

Date and Hour Parameter Unit Type Value
7/13/2017 8:50 Air Temperature °C Average 29.2
7/13/2017 8:50 Air Temperature °C Minimun 28.9
7/13/2017 8:50 Air Temperature °C Maximun 29.5
7/13/2017 8:50 Relative Humidity % Average 41.1
7/13/2017 8:50 Relative Humidity % Minimun 40.4
7/13/2017 8:50 Relative Humidity % Maximun 42
7/13/2017 8:50 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Average 328
7/13/2017 8:50 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Minimun 298.5
7/13/2017 8:50 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Maximun 354.8
7/13/2017 8:50 Wind Speed m/s Average 3
7/13/2017 8:50 Wind Speed m/s Minimun 1.4
7/13/2017 8:50 Wind Speed m/s Maximun 4.8
7/13/2017 8:50 Rainfall mm/h Totalization 7

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2021-07-21
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2021-07-08
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