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

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Yelwa-21: 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: Yelwa(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/21

Variables measured as in the data available for download:

Date and Hour<./td> Parameter Unit Type Value
7/10/2017 15:10 Air Temperature °C Average 34.5
7/10/2017 15:10 Air Temperature °C Minimun 34.3
7/10/2017 15:10 Air Temperature °C Maximun 34.7
7/10/2017 15:10 Relative Humidity % Average 38.4
7/10/2017 15:10 Relative Humidity % Minimun 36.9
7/10/2017 15:10 Relative Humidity % Maximun 40.1
7/10/2017 15:10 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Average 394.7
7/10/2017 15:10 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Minimun 356
7/10/2017 15:10 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Maximun 430.5
7/10/2017 15:10 Wind Speed m/s Average 2.1
7/10/2017 15:10 Wind Speed m/s Minimun 0.7
7/10/2017 15:10 Wind Speed m/s Maximun 3.6
7/10/2017 15:10 Rainfall mm/h Totalization 79.4

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2021-07-21
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2021-07-07
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POINT (3.6309814453125 7.9211938362515)
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