Hourly precipitation data for Kampala, Uganda, 2019-2020

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. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3df031ad-34ec-4abc-8528-f8f20bad12b8

Date (Publication): 2021-09-01

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3df031ad-34ec-4abc-8528-f8f20bad12b8

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/3df031ad-34ec-4abc-8528-f8f20bad12b8

Other citation details: McClean, F., Walsh, C., Lwasa, S., Ddumba, D. (2021). Hourly precipitation data for Kampala, Uganda, 2019-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3df031ad-34ec-4abc-8528-f8f20bad12b8

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Newcastle University - McClean, F.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6159-2826

Author

Newcastle University - Walsh, C.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4047-1216

Author

Makerere University - Lwasa, S.

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Makerere University - Ddumba, D.

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Newcastle University - McClean, F.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6159-2826

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Newcastle University

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: 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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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2019-01-01

End date: 2020-12-31

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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GeoJSON ()
Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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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Date stamp: 2025-11-13T16:22:29

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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