Scientific Data (Apr 2022)

A meteorological dataset of the West African monsoon during the 2016 DACCIWA campaign

  • Martin Kohler,
  • Geoffrey Bessardon,
  • Barbara Brooks,
  • Norbert Kalthoff,
  • Fabienne Lohou,
  • Bianca Adler,
  • Oluwagbemiga Olawale Jegede,
  • Barbara Altstädter,
  • Leonard Kofitse Amekudzi,
  • Jeffrey Nii Armah Aryee,
  • Winifred Ayinpogbilla Atiah,
  • Muritala Ayoola,
  • Karmen Babić,
  • Konrad Bärfuss,
  • Yannick Bezombes,
  • Guillaume Bret,
  • Pierre-Etienne Brilouet,
  • Fred Cayle-Aethelhard,
  • Sylvester Danuor,
  • Claire Delon,
  • Solene Derrien,
  • Cheikh Dione,
  • Pierre Durand,
  • Kwabena Fosu-Amankwah,
  • Omar Gabella,
  • James Groves,
  • Jan Handwerker,
  • Corinne Jambert,
  • Norbert Kunka,
  • Astrid Lampert,
  • Jérémy Leclercq,
  • Marie Lothon,
  • Patrice Medina,
  • Arnaud Miere,
  • Falk Pätzold,
  • Xabier Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia,
  • Irene Reinares Martínez,
  • Steven Sharpe,
  • Victoria Smith,
  • Andreas Wieser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01277-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Measurement(s) Wind speed, Wind direction, Temperature, Relative humidity, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, Air Pressure, Radiative Fluxes near the surface • range, elevation azimut, radial velocity, wind vectors • Brightness temperatures • Reflectivity, range, elevation azimut • Trace gas concentrations • Aeorosol optical depth • Sky images, visible and infrared • Temperature, Humidity and Windprofiles • Temperature, Relative Humidity and Black Carbon Concentration • Temperature, Humidity, vertical wind speed Technology Type(s) weather station, energy balance station • Lidar, Sodar, UHF-Profiler • Microwave Radiometer • Rain radar and Cloud radar • Trace gas analyser • Photometer • Cloud camera • Radiosoundings • UAV • Eddy Correlation Factor Type(s) Precipitation and Cloudformation • turbulent fluxes of heat and moisture • Vertical temperature, humidity and wind profiles Sample Characteristic - Environment Atmosphere Sample Characteristic - Location West Africa