Identification

Title

AWS (Automatic Weather Station) Climate Data, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

Abstract

The dataset contains climate data (Humidity, Rainfall, Rainfall Rate, Dewpoint, Atmospheric Pressure, Temperature, Wind Direction, Wind Gust, Wind Chill, Solar Radiation, Windspeed, Heat Index, UV & UVI) at daily temporal resolution from Maplin Professional Solar Powered Wi-Fi Weather Stations installed at Munje and Galu within the study area.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://upgro.org/consortium/gro-for-good/

function: information

http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853667/

function: information

https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item81549

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607219

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

xMin,yMin 47869.9695, 9491995.1231 : xMax,yMax 567375.2423, 9547808.6490 UTM X/Y Arc1960 (Kwale County, Kenya)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Atmospheric pressure

Climatology

NGDC Deposited Data

Temperature

Solar radiation

Wind

Humidity

Rainfall

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2022

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

NERC_DDC

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

38.4500

East bounding longitude

39.7000

North bounding latitude

-3.5500

South bounding latitude

-4.6700

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

KE

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

KEN

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

KENYA [id=687000]

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-05-12

End position

2017-08-28

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2017-10-19

Frequency of update

notApplicable

Quality and validity

Lineage

Maplin Professional Solar Powered Wi-Fi Weather Station (Maplin N23DQ) installed at Galu and Munje provide high quality climate data of measured outdoor temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall and solar / UV radiation from the all-in-one outdoor sensor. The instrument is solar powered and the data can be directly downloaded or with Wi-Fi uploads to Wunderground (www.wunderground.com) where the data can then be downloaded via the Internet. The data was obtained at 5 minute resolution then aggregated to daily resolution.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011

degree

false

explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

School of Geography and the Environment

organisation name

University of Oxford

full postal address

Oxford

OX1 3QY

email address

not available

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Responsible party

contact position

Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

organisation name

University of Oxford

full postal address

Oxford

OX1 3QY

email address

not available

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Rural Focus Ltd

full postal address

P.O. Box 1011-10400

Nanyuki

Kenya

email address

not available

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

organisation name

Rural Focus Ltd

email address

not available

responsible party role

originator

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

NOTTINGHAM

NG12 5GG

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 115 936 3100

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-04-13

Metadata language