Monthly maps of air temperature and air humidity of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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Monthly maps of air temperature and air humidity of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The dataset is part of our study on eco‐meteorological characteristics of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania ([https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]). (1) ta200_kriging.zip The dataset contains interpolate monthly air temperature maps using universal kriging with elevation, aspect, slope, sky‐view factor and mean monthly normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as external drift variables. This corresponds to step 5 in chapter 3.1 of [https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]. (2) rh200_kriging.zip The dataset contains interpolate monthly air humidity maps using universal kriging with elevation, aspect, slope, sky‐view factor and mean monthly normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as external drift variables. This corresponds to step 5 in chapter 3.1 of [https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]. (3) ta200_kriging_multi-year_average.zip and rh200_kriging_multi-year_average.zip The dataset contains multi-year monthly averages from (1) and (2) and a map of the multi-year annual mean air temperature and humidity. This corresponds to step 6 in chapter 3.1 of [https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]. For the datasets (1) and (2), we used 5-min measurements between 2011 and 2014 of 52 climate stations that distributed across the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. We aggregated the 5-min measurements to hourly observations and filled existing gaps of up to 1 year through multivariate regression using the five nearest stations. We aggregated the gap-filled hourly data to daily averages if at least 22 h of valid records exist for that day at a specific station. Finally, we aggregated the daily averages to monthly averages if a single month has at least 20 valid daily records.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942820
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.942820
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Creator Appelhans, Tim; Mwangomo, Ephraim; Otte, Insa; Detsch, Florian ORCID logo; Nauss, Thomas ORCID logo; Hemp, Andreas
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 107847609 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/107847609 Kilimanjaro Research Group
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4 data points
Discipline Earth System Research