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Datasets

The Datasets page on Aquaknow provides access to a variety of geo-referenced datasets related to soil, hydrology, and climate, supporting research and sustainable water management

SASSCAL hourly and Daily Meteo Data (Station)

Jul 25, 2023
The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) is a joint initiative of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Germany in response to the challenges of global change. It contains a collection of hourly meteo data stat ...

Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)

Jul 25, 2023
The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) is an integrated database of climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe that have been subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews. The data are obtained from more than 20 sources. Some data are more than ...

Accessibility map : travel time to major cities

Jul 24, 2023
A new map of Travel Time to Major Cities - developed by the European Commission and the World Bank - captures this connectivity and the concentration of economic activity and also highlights that there is little wilderness left. The map shows how accessible some parts of the world have ...

ECOWREX Intaractive Data Portal

Jul 24, 2023
Accurate knowledge on existing and planned resources are vital for strategic planning and development. The non-availability of reliable and updated energy information poses a major constraint for policy makers, investors and project developers in the ECOWAS energy sector. For investors ...

ECOWREX Dataset

Jul 24, 2023
Accurate knowledge on existing and planned resources are vital for strategic planning and development. The non-availability of reliable and updated energy information poses a major constraint for policy makers, investors and project developers in the ECOWAS energy sector. For investors ...

Global Wetland (CIFOR) Dataset

Jul 24, 2023
Wetlands play a fundamental role in climate change mitigation, and provide essential ecosystem services. Yet there is still a lot we don’t know about their precise distribution, extent and inter-annual variability around the world, particularly in the tropics.

Geo-referencing of Ethnic Groups /EPR Core Dateset

Jul 24, 2023
The Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Core Dataset 2014 is based on the original dataset EPR v.1.1 and identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups and their access to state power in every country of the world from 1946 to 2013. It includes annual data on over 800 groups and codes the ...

WorldPop Project Data

Jul 24, 2023
High spatial resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of population growth, for monitoring changes and for planning interventions. The WorldPop project aims to meet these needs through the provision o ...

GHS population grid

Jul 24, 2023
GHS population grid, derived from GPW4, for 1975, 1990, 2000 and 2015. Values are expressed as decimals (Float). The data is published at medium and low resolution (250m and 1km respectively) in World Mollweide (EPSG:54009). The compressed ZIP file contain TIF files and short documenta ...

Global Map of Irrigated Areas v5.0 (GMIA)

Jul 24, 2023
Global Map of Irrigated Areas v5.0 : The map shows the amount of area equipped for irrigation around the year 2005 in percentage of the total area on a raster with a resolution of 5 minutes. Additional map layers show the percentage of the area equipped for irrigation that was actually ...