Osogbo-2: WASCAL Donated Automatic Weather Station in Nigeria

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This is a BMBF funded Automatic Weather Station (AWS) donated by WASCAL to Burkina Faso through NIMET 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 NIMET, 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 July
Location: Osogbo(Nigeria)
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://www.wascal-hydromet-net.org/station-details-recent/2

Variables measured as in the data available for download:

Date and Hour	Parameter	Unit	Type	Value
6/5/2017 16:20	Air Temperature	°C	Average	11.1
6/5/2017 16:20	Air Temperature	°C	Minimun	10.9
6/5/2017 16:20	Air Temperature	°C	Maximun	11.3
6/5/2017 16:20	Relative Humidity	%	Average	53.1
6/5/2017 16:20	Relative Humidity	%	Minimun	52.1
6/5/2017 16:20	Relative Humidity	%	Maximun	54.1
6/5/2017 16:20	Global Solar Radiation	W/m2	Average	144.7
6/5/2017 16:20	Global Solar Radiation	W/m2	Minimun	130
6/5/2017 16:20	Global Solar Radiation	W/m2	Maximun	160.4
6/5/2017 16:20	Wind Speed	m/s	Average/td>	2.6
6/5/2017 16:20	Wind Speed	m/s	Minimun/td>	1.3
6/5/2017 16:20	Wind Speed	m/s	Maximun/td>	4.1
6/5/2017 16:20	Rainfall	mm/h	Totalization/td>	2.8

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Nigeria

Climate

Climate change

climate data

osogbo

Field	Value
Groups	WASCAL CoC WASCAL Data Management WASCAL Observation Networks (WAS-ONs)
Modified	2021-07-21
Release Date	2021-07-07
Identifier	30d5c7e4-e0d1-4d28-b05c-a5f40a683084
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area	POINT (4.5552062988281 7.779880226472)
Covered Regions/Countries	Nigeria

Data Rights and Credits

Data Rights
Public Access Level	Public
License	Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

Data Credits to Individuals
Data Disseminator	FataoDem
Data Scientist	diallo.b
Data Manager	diallo.b

Data Credits to Organisations
Data Provider	NIMET WASCAL
Data Publisher	NIMET WASCAL
Data Funder	NIMET WASCAL
Data Owner	NIMET WASCAL

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