Dataset Overview

Daily average values of weather data for Lake Kivu from AWS Kivu, located on the Rwanda Energy Company platform that were collected for 2012-2017, at 30-minutes intervals, except rain data which are a daily sum. Variables include height at which wind was measured, air pressure, air temperature, rain, relative humidity, solar radiation, maximum wind speed, average wind speed, and wind direction.

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Purpose

Please see GEISHA Project home page on FEMC website at https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/geisha-stormblitzfr or see the GEISHA website hosted by INRAE at https://www.geisha-stormblitz.fr/

Data Collection Status

Data collection for this dataset has been completed

Start date

2012-10-10

End date

2017-09-19

Contents

1806 records with 13 fields

Data Availability

Available for download

Data License

CC BY - Attribution license logo

Preferred Citation

Rooney G, van Lipzig NPM, Thiery W (2018) Estimating the effect of rainfall on the surface temperature of a tropical lake, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 6357-6369. Data available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/geisha-stormblitzfr/dataset/kivu-daily-weather-data

Update Frequency

As needed

Maintenance Plan

Not provided

Links

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Previous Versions
    • Version 1 - 24Feb2021 (created 2021-02-24 by Jason Stockwell)