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Nicholson's Africa Precipitation, monthly 1901-1984

Sharon Nicholson at Florida State University compiled this dataset of monthly rainfall totals for African stations. The period covered is 1901 to 1984.



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PERIODS: 1837-12-01 to 1999-12-31
VARIABLES:
Precipitation Amount
TYPES: Platform Observation
COVERAGE: See the detailed metadata for coverage information
SOURCES: FSU/METEO
Meteorology Department, Florida State University
PUBLICATIONS: Nicholson, S.E., 1979: Revised rainfall series for the West African subtropics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 620-623.

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds571.0."
VOLUME: 51.24 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: DSS WMSSC
MORE DETAILS: View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Will Spangler (303-497-1217) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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