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Climate Variability in Western Africa

Jul 25, 2023
Dataset extended description

Raster Maps of Western Africa area

It contains:

out_annual: Annual Precipitation: L Moments (l1,t,t3 and t4) , Return Periods of precipitation deficit/execess respect to the mean value, Differences respect to the mean (deficit/escess events) for specific return period;

out_monthly/MON: Monthly Precipitation: L Moments (l1,t,t3 and t4) , Return Periods of precipitation deficit/execess respect to the mean value, Differences respect to the mean (deficit/escess events) for specific return period (all analyzed maps are produced for each month of the year) ;

out_tempaarature: Maximum Annal Temperature: L Moments (l1,t,t3 and t4) , HWMId index, based on daily maximum temperature for each year. (https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/extRemes/versions/2.0-8/topics/…).

Format: GEOtiff and png for a quick visualization.

Analyzed Period: 1981-2017
Input Data: CHIRS (precipitation) and ERA Interim (temperature)

Author: Emanuele Cordano, Iban Ametzoy, Luigi Cattaneo, Cesar Carmona Moreno.

Date: June 2018

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Dataset availability
PRIVATE
Dataset temporal frequency
monthly
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Dataset region of interest
Dataset JRC contact
cesar.carmona-moreno@ec.europa.eu
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