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    • SAFARI 2000 Monthly Climatology for the 20th Century (New et al.)

    Metadata Updated: March 11, 2025

    This is a data set of mean monthly surface climate data over Southern Africa for nearly all of the twentieth century. The data set is gridded at 0.5-degree latitude/longitude resolution and includes seven variables: precipitation, mean temperature, diurnal temperature range, wet-day frequency, vapour pressure, cloud cover, and ground-frost frequency.

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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 15, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2025

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 15, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2025
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2796825238-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-11-04
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-07
    Category SAFARI 2000, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation New, M., M. Hulme, and P.D. Jones. 2002. SAFARI 2000 Monthly Climatology for the 20th Century (New et al.). ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/623
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    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/safari_logo_square.png
    Harvest Object Id 25e20026-409d-4397-ba36-8069036d5f03
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/623
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial 5.0 -5.0 60.0 35.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4455580ce99f94355c20e55b9388d36461a3c5a6c48ea79e7d5befb9fdaf68c3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z/1996-12-31T23:59:59Z

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