WASCAL CoC

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

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Tuna-45: WASCAL Donated Automatic Weather Station in Ghana

Topics: 
Climate
Description: 

This is a BMBF funded Automatic Weather Station (AWS) donated by WASCAL to Burkina Faso through GMET(Ghana) 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 GMET(Ghana), 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: 17 November
Location: Tuna(Ghana)
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/45

Date and Hour Parameter Unit Type Value
2/2/2021 0:00 Air Temperature °C Average 25.9
2/2/2021 0:00 Air Temperature °C Minimun 25.8
2/2/2021 0:00 Air Temperature °C Maximun 26.1
2/2/2021 0:00 Relative Humidity % Average 29.7
2/2/2021 0:00 Relative Humidity % Minimun 29.3
2/2/2021 0:00 Relative Humidity % Maximun 30.2
2/2/2021 0:00 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Average 0
2/2/2021 0:00 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Minimun -0.3
2/2/2021 0:00 Global Solar Radiation W/m2 Maximun 0.2
2/2/2021 0:00 Wind Speed m/s Average 1.1
2/2/2021 0:00 Wind Speed m/s Minimun 0.6
2/2/2021 0:00 Wind Speed m/s Maximun 1.7
2/2/2021 0:00 Rainfall mm/h Totalization 0.2

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Tags: 
Ghana
Climate change
Climate
climate data
tuna
FieldValue
Groups
WASCAL CoC
WASCAL Data Management
WASCAL Observation Networks (WAS-ONs)
Modified
2021-07-21
Release Date
2021-07-15
Identifier
241eeeee-85b7-429e-ac29-8eadd2515ed7
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area
POINT (-2.2151184082031 9.2385179384119)
Covered Regions/Countries
Ghana
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
GMET
WASCAL
Data Publisher
GMET
WASCAL
Data Funder
GMET
WASCAL
Data Owner
GMET
WASCAL

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