CEOP/EOP1 CATCH Niamey Daily Precipitation Data


CONTACT:

     Thierry Lebel
     Laboratoire d'Etude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement
     BP 53
     Domaine universitaire
     38041 GRENOBLE cedex 9, FRANCE 

     Telephone: (33) 04 76 82 52 85
     Facsimile: 
     E-mail: lebel@hmg.inpg.fr 


Data Format:

1321201800 2001
   3210600      -1   6847200
   3220600       0   6933600
   4300600       0  10303200
   5010600       8  10389600
   5020600       0  10476000
   5100600       0  11167200
   5110600     257  11253600

1321201800 is the station identifier (see the station list document
included with your order).

2001 is the year

First Column:
The nominal date and time of the observation, e.g.
3210600 is the month (3) day of month (21) and nominal time of the 
observation (0600).  The time is thought at present to be UTC but
still unclear.

Second Column:
The rainfall amount registered between date i and date i+1 (1/10 mm), e.g.
257 between 11th of May (6 AM) and 12th of May (6 AM), 25.7 mm of 
rainfall was registered.  A negative value in this column represents
a missing value.

Third Column:
The actual time of the observation, e.g.
6847200 the actual time of the observation in seconds from the beginning 
of the year.

Note that the station list for these data is included with your order.
This file is called: catch_niamey_stations.doc