Weather Stations of Africa : names and coordinates (database SIEREM)

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Rouché, Nathalie, 2024, "Weather Stations of Africa : names and coordinates (database SIEREM)", https://doi.org/10.23708/L4XD4B, DataSuds, V1, UNF:6:UodMCwhDtY20LzIm443xQg== [fileUNF]

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Description	This dataset contains Weather Station Name, Country Name, Latitude, Longitude, Years of activity : start and end of observations of Africa issued from SIEREM database, for about 7793 meteorological stations covering all regions of Africa between 1837 and 2019. SIEREM (Environmental Information system on Water Resources and their Modelling) http://www.hydrosciences.fr/sierem is developed by HydroSciences Montpellier research unit. The team studies, on a regional scale, hydrological variability on the African continent and the Mediterranean borders. The team is interested not in the climatic origins of this variability but in the impacts it is supposed to have on the water resources. The regional scale on one hand and, on the other hand, the taking into account of the various structuring elements of the milieu (soil, vegetation etc.) force to be based on a set of environmental knowledge covering the studied zone. It is the reason why SIEREM was carried out. The dataset will first give us a measure of the extent to which African states at the time covered their country territory, trivially to set up weather stations. Secondly, we noticed that the names of some stations, paired with their coordinates, could be useful to projects as historical colonial state presence in Africa, for geocoding several historical maps and sources, to find information accurate for settlements/schools, villages, concessions and name of weather stations explicitly refer to. The information generally needed for a meteorological station relates to its geographical position and the date of start observation. A hydrometeorological network is a set of stations distributed in the space to which we measure, for an indefinite period or not, a certain number of parameters concerning one or more hydrological or meteorological phenomena. The network of rain gauges (weather station) is generally well distributed over the sub-basins and overall catchment area. (2024-07-12)
Subject	Computer and Information Science; Earth and Environmental Sciences
Keyword	weather station, weather station, rain gauge, Africa
Related Publication	Roche Marcel. Composition et rationalisation des réseaux hydrométéorologiques. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série Hydrologie (FRA). 4, 3, p. 47-60, 1967 url: Horizon Pleins Textes is the IRD's documentary database
Notes	Horizon Pleins Textes is the IRD's documentary database which lists and provides access to the publications of the Institute's scientists and co-publications with scientific partners from the South, as well as the collections of its libraries around the world. https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-php/accueil Directory of Cities and Towns in World web site : https://www.fallingrain.com/world/
License/Data Use Agreement	CC BY-NC 4.0

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	SIEREM_AnnualRainfallMapOfAfrica.JPG www.editions.ird.fr/JPEG Image - 29.4 KB Published Aug 1, 2024 11 Downloads MD5: 8a1835161743dac73b4154ca2035872a Annual rainfall map of Africa Data	Access File File Access Public Download Options JPEG Image Download Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX
	SIEREM_CodificationStationsORSTOM_Referentiel.pdf Adobe PDF - 7.7 MB Published Aug 1, 2024 11 Downloads MD5: 7e1f22a84f57ba347139c0f45058400d Automatic processing of hydrometric and pluviometric data in the hydrological service of ORSTOM. Marcel ROCHE -1968 Documentation	Access File File Access Public Download Options Adobe PDF Download Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX
	SIEREM_CountryCode_ISO3116-1.txt Plain Text - 5.7 KB Published Aug 1, 2024 12 Downloads MD5: ee6a468b12e80bdd167f0a1290578151 iso country standards codes names. ISO 3166 standard aims to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that can be used to designate countries and their subdivisions. Country names are not established by ISO. Documentation	Access File File Access Public Download Options Plain Text Download Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX
	SIEREM_ExtWeatherStationsPeriodofActivityT.tab Tabular Data - 659.6 KB Published Aug 1, 2024 11 Downloads 1 Variables, 7793 Observations UNF:6:UodMCwhDtY20LzIm443xQg== list of Names, Country, Coordinates for weather stations in SIEREM database semi-column file format Data	Access File File Access Public Download Options Tab-Separated Values (Original File Format) Tab-Delimited RData Download Metadata Variable Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX
	SIEREM_WeatherStationsMapF.jpg JPEG Image - 371.1 KB Published Aug 1, 2024 11 Downloads MD5: 3acc8c0cd30de7a5bc533cd304ea9c96 Location of weather stations map of Africa DataMap	Access File File Access Public Download Options JPEG Image Download Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX
	SIEREM_WeatherStationsMapF.pdf Adobe PDF - 1.3 MB Published Aug 1, 2024 12 Downloads MD5: e924840dbbdc8fc011365827f30d92f1 Location of weather station map of Africa Map	Access File File Access Public Download Options Adobe PDF Download Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX
	WeatherStationsofAfrica_README.txt Plain Text - 2.2 KB Published Aug 1, 2024 12 Downloads MD5: b91cdae8ace06d1df37261ea3b9dd826 File list with contents description of Weather Stations of Africa Documentation	Access File File Access Public Download Options Plain Text Download Metadata Data File Citation EndNote XML RIS BibTeX

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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.23708/L4XD4B
Publication Date	2024-08-01
Title	Weather Stations of Africa : names and coordinates (database SIEREM)
Subtitle	Location of rainfall stations in Africa collected in database SIEREM
Alternative Title	Position des postes de mesures de pluie en Afrique disponibles dans la base SIEREM
Alternative URL	http://www.hydrosciences.fr/sierem/index_en.htm
Author	Rouché, Nathalie (UMR HSM - CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, IRD - France) - ORCID: 0000-0003-3215-3805
Point of Contact	Use email button above to contact. Rouché, Nathalie (UMR HSM - CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, IRD - France)
Description	This dataset contains Weather Station Name, Country Name, Latitude, Longitude, Years of activity : start and end of observations of Africa issued from SIEREM database, for about 7793 meteorological stations covering all regions of Africa between 1837 and 2019. SIEREM (Environmental Information system on Water Resources and their Modelling) http://www.hydrosciences.fr/sierem is developed by HydroSciences Montpellier research unit. The team studies, on a regional scale, hydrological variability on the African continent and the Mediterranean borders. The team is interested not in the climatic origins of this variability but in the impacts it is supposed to have on the water resources. The regional scale on one hand and, on the other hand, the taking into account of the various structuring elements of the milieu (soil, vegetation etc.) force to be based on a set of environmental knowledge covering the studied zone. It is the reason why SIEREM was carried out. The dataset will first give us a measure of the extent to which African states at the time covered their country territory, trivially to set up weather stations. Secondly, we noticed that the names of some stations, paired with their coordinates, could be useful to projects as historical colonial state presence in Africa, for geocoding several historical maps and sources, to find information accurate for settlements/schools, villages, concessions and name of weather stations explicitly refer to. The information generally needed for a meteorological station relates to its geographical position and the date of start observation. A hydrometeorological network is a set of stations distributed in the space to which we measure, for an indefinite period or not, a certain number of parameters concerning one or more hydrological or meteorological phenomena. The network of rain gauges (weather station) is generally well distributed over the sub-basins and overall catchment area. (2024-07-12)
Subject	Computer and Information Science; Earth and Environmental Sciences
Keyword	weather station (Geonames) https://www.geonames.org/ weather station (Unesco Thesaurus) https://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/fr/?clang=en rain gauge (lexique hydro) https://webgr.irstea.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/LexiqueHydro.pdf Africa (ISO 3166 norm)
Scientific Theme	Continental waters and oceans: generalities (NumeriSud) https://uri.ird.fr/so/kos/tnu/030 Geography, environment and climatology (NumeriSud) https://uri.ird.fr/so/kos/tnu/021 Earth sciences: generalities (NumeriSud) https://uri.ird.fr/so/kos/tnu/060 Cartography (NumeriSud) https://uri.ird.fr/so/kos/tnu/128 Computer sciences (NumeriSud) https://uri.ird.fr/so/kos/tnu/122
Related Publication	Roche Marcel. Composition et rationalisation des réseaux hydrométéorologiques. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série Hydrologie (FRA). 4, 3, p. 47-60, 1967 url: Horizon Pleins Textes is the IRD's documentary database https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:14847 Herbaud Jacques. Essai sur les problèmes de rationalisation de réseaux : mise en oeuvre sur un réseau pluviométrique. Cahiers ORSTOM.Série Hydrologie (FRA). 6, 4, p. 3-42, 1969 url: Horizon Pleins Textes is the IRD's documentary database https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:16555
Notes	Horizon Pleins Textes is the IRD's documentary database which lists and provides access to the publications of the Institute's scientists and co-publications with scientific partners from the South, as well as the collections of its libraries around the world. https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-php/accueil Directory of Cities and Towns in World web site : https://www.fallingrain.com/world/
Language	French
Production Date	2024-07-12
Contributor	Research Group : Service hydrologique de l'ORSTOM devenu IRD Hosting Institution : Institut de Recherche pour le Développment
Distributor	Nathalie Rouché (HSM - IRD) http://www.hydrosciences.fr/sierem/index_en.htm
Distribution Date	2024-07-18
Depositor	Rouché, Nathalie
Deposit Date	2024-07-12
Time Period	Start Date: 1837-07-01 ; End Date: 2019-09-20
Series	SIEREM_WeatherStationsOfAfrica
Related Dataset	http://www.hydrosciences.fr/sierem/index_en.htm; Rouché, Nathalie, 2024, "Weather Stations for Africa : names and coordinates (database SIEREM)", https://doi.org/10.23708/L4XD4B, DataSuds
Origin of Historical Sources	HydroSciences Montpellier research unit is interested not in the climatic origins of this variability but in the impacts it is supposed to have on the water resources. The regional scale on one hand and, on the other hand, the taking into account of the various structuring elements of the milieu (soil, vegetation etc.) force to be based on a set of environmental knowledge covering the studied zone. It is the reason why SIEREM was carried out.

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