Hourly precipitation data for Kampala, Uganda, 2019-2020
https://doi.org/10.5285/3df031ad-34ec-4abc-8528-f8f20bad12b8
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Hourly precipitation (mm) recorded at distributed points around Kampala between April 2019 and March 2020. Only timestamps where data were available from all sensors have been included. There are 8094 records in total and no missing values. Timestamps are recorded as “YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss”. The geographic coordinates of the sensors are provided in GeoJSON format. The column names in the CSV file correspond to the “id” field in the GeoJSON file.
Publication date: 2021-09-01
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GeoJSON, Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
WGS 84
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Provenance & quality
Davis Vantage VUE Sensor Suites were installed by researchers from Makerere University and Newcastle University in April 2019. Calibration is not required for the sensors employed in this research. No quality control procedures have been applied.
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence 
Cite this dataset as:
McClean, F.; Walsh, C.; Lwasa, S.; Ddumba, D. (2021). Hourly precipitation data for Kampala, Uganda, 2019-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/3df031ad-34ec-4abc-8528-f8f20bad12b8
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Newcastle University
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