[TZGISUG] Tanzania Climate Data for GIS

[Lindsey Higgins]

Hello Mike,

I had a hard time accessing the TMA website because I ended up with a computer virus from it and have since been nervous about going back.  The US National Climatic Data Center has some meteorological observations, but consistency is an issue. 

To search for data: http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdoselect.cmd?datasetabbv=GSOD&countryabbv=&georegionabbv=

Please let me know if you have any success with the TMA, as I am also working in Northern Tanzania.

Best regards,
Lindsey Higgins
Stockholm University

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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 8:46 PM
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Subject: [TZGISUG] Tanzania Climate Data for GIS

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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