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    • SAFARI 2000 Daily Rainfall Totals for Mongu, Zambia, 1999-2002

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This data set contains daily rainfall totals (mm) from Mongu, in the Western Province of Zambia. The data were collected with a British standard 5 inch diameter rain gauge in a yard 30 m away from the Meteorological Department building near the Mongu Airport (north of downtown and approximately 20 km from the Kataba Local Forest where the permanent 30 m Mongu tower site is located). Rainfall readings were taken by ZMD staff each morning at 06:00 GMT. These data form the official government rainfall record for Mongu.The data files consist of 3 files, one for each year (July to Jun). Each files contains monthly columns with totals for each day of the month as well as a monthly total. The data files are stored as ASCII text files in comma-separated-value (csv) format.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2789658100-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-10-18
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-10-25
    Category SAFARI 2000, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Mukelabai, M.M. 2005. SAFARI 2000 Daily Rainfall Totals for Mongu, Zambia, 1999-2002. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/785
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/785
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -15.25 23.16
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d6cf20f8d7cc85182ce97b50a6d8c399aac2018c6cd9175399996a51ec524157
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z/2002-06-30T23:59:59Z

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