Lake Victoria Region METAR Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/572.001

Summary
This data set includes the METAR surface meteorological observations from
stations in the Lake Victoria region of Africa. The data are in the METAR
ASCII format.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 572.001

Citation
Example citation following ESIP guidelines (http://bit.ly/data_citation):

 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2019. Lake Victoria Region METAR
 Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/572.001 Accessed 26 Sep 2020.

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 eol-datahelp@ucar.edu
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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * HIGHWAY: High Impact Weather Lake System
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/HIGHWAY

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: hourly
 * Progress: onGoing
 * Language: English

ISO Topic Categories
 * climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Categories
 * Mesonet
 * Surface

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORIES > WEATHER/CLIMATE ADVISORIES > PRESENT WEATHER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD BASE HEIGHT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2019-04-11 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 9999-12-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 1.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: -4.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: 30.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 35.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <eol-datahelp@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/572.001?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/572.001?format=isotc211