[TZGISUG] Tanzania Climate Data for GIS

[Mike Shand]

Dear Pekka and Edwin,

Ashante sana, positive leads, exactly what this list is good at.

We have a large interdisciplinary research project at the University of 
Glasgow (Livestock, Livelihoods and Health 
<http://livestocklivelihoodsandhealth.org/>) studying Zoonoses in 
Northern Tanzania and one of our researchers wishes to create some GIS 
tools for predictive disease risk mapping.

We will certainly check out the Africlim data, especially the original 
sources for the raw data.  I reckon 1 arc second is around 30m at the 
equator which is a compatible resolution to the Land Cover and DTM data 
we propose to use.  Having access to raw times series climate data from 
TMA would allow us to undertake some modelling for our risk mapping 
proposals in combination with the zoonoses data we are collecting 
through our extensive fieldwork programme.

Regards,
Mike
On 22/10/2015 21:15, Edwin Mugerezi wrote:
> Dear Mike,
> My office is on same building with TMA. I will forward your request to 
> the authority.
> Edwin Mugerezi, Info Bridge.
>
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> *From*:"Pekka Hurskainen via TZGISUG" <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>
> *Date*:Thu, 22 Oct, 2015 at 22:33
> *Subject*:Re: [TZGISUG] Tanzania Climate Data for GIS
>
> Dear Mike,
>
> For raster datasets, have you looked at Africlim dataset by University 
> of York? It covers the whole Africa at 1 arc-second resolution.
> It includes monthly grids of temperature and rainfall, and derived 
> bioclimatic summary variables such as moisture indices and dry season 
> length. There are both baseline grids (current conditions) and 
> projected grids for future conditions under different climate 
> scenarios (RCPs).
>
> See https://www.york.ac.uk/environment/research/kite/resources/#tab-1
>
> BR
>
> Pekka Hurskainen
> University of Helsinki
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Mike Shand via TZGISUG 
> <tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz <javascript:return>> wrote:
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     Does anyone in this group have experience accessing or using raw
>     climate datasets from the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA). ?
>
>     I know from published reports that the TMA have collected climate
>     data daily over the last 25 years.
>
>     In particular can anyone supply information on the following:
>     1. Name and GPS Location of all stations collecting climate data
>     daily or monthly ?
>     2. Availability of GIS readable spreadsheets containing rainfall
>     and temperature data over the past 25 years.
>     3. Availability of recent vector isolines in shapefile or gdb
>     format for rainfall and temperature.
>     4. Raster data at resolutions better than 1km pixels for rainfall
>     and temperature (TMA shows 4km pixels on their MapRoom website).
>
>     Regards,
>     Mike Shand
>     University of Glasgow
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