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| Title |
The Centennial Trends Greater Horn of Africa precipitation dataset
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| Published in |
Scientific Data, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/sdata.2015.50 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Chris Funk, Sharon E. Nicholson, Martin Landsfeld, Douglas Klotter, Pete Peterson, Laura Harrison |
| Abstract |
East Africa is a drought prone, food and water insecure region with a highly variable climate. This complexity makes rainfall estimation challenging, and this challenge is compounded by low rain gauge densities and inhomogeneous monitoring networks. The dearth of observations is particularly problematic over the past decade, since the number of records in globally accessible archives has fallen precipitously. This lack of data coincides with an increasing scientific and humanitarian need to place recent seasonal and multi-annual East African precipitation extremes in a deep historic context. To serve this need, scientists from the UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Group and Florida State University have pooled their station archives and expertise to produce a high quality gridded 'Centennial Trends' precipitation dataset. Additional observations have been acquired from the national meteorological agencies and augmented with data provided by other universities. Extensive quality control of the data was carried out and seasonal anomalies interpolated using kriging. This paper documents the CenTrends methodology and data. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 18% |
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| South Africa | 1 | 6% |
| Turkey | 1 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 6% |
| Belgium | 1 | 6% |
| Denmark | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 76% |
| Scientists | 3 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 147 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 146 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 20% |
| Researcher | 27 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 18 | 12% |
| Unknown | 34 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 44 | 30% |
| Environmental Science | 30 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 5% |
| Engineering | 6 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Unknown | 48 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2022.
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