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

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Garou-20: WASCAL Donated Automatic Weather Station in Benin

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his is a BMBF funded Automatic Weather Station (AWS) donated by WASCAL to Burkina Faso through METEO-BENIN 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 METEO-BENIN, 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:
Location: Garou(Benin)
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/20

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Modified
2021-07-21
Release Date
2021-07-07
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e8850487-d2cc-4c6a-8707-681cfd689361
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POINT (3.4819793701172 11.797877245127)
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