/* DATA DESCRIPTION: Citation: Appelhans, Tim; Mwangomo, Ephraim; Otte, Insa; Detsch, Florian; Nauss, Thomas; Hemp, Andreas (2022): Monthly maps of air temperature and air humidity of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942820 Abstract: Monthly maps of air temperature and air humidity of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The dataset is part of our study on eco‐meteorological characteristics of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania ([https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]). (1) ta200_kriging.zip The dataset contains interpolate monthly air temperature maps using universal kriging with elevation, aspect, slope, sky‐view factor and mean monthly normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as external drift variables. This corresponds to step 5 in chapter 3.1 of [https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]. (2) rh200_kriging.zip The dataset contains interpolate monthly air humidity maps using universal kriging with elevation, aspect, slope, sky‐view factor and mean monthly normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as external drift variables. This corresponds to step 5 in chapter 3.1 of [https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]. (3) ta200_kriging_multi-year_average.zip and rh200_kriging_multi-year_average.zip The dataset contains multi-year monthly averages from (1) and (2) and a map of the multi-year annual mean air temperature and humidity. This corresponds to step 6 in chapter 3.1 of [https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552]. For the datasets (1) and (2), we used 5-min measurements between 2011 and 2014 of 52 climate stations that distributed across the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. We aggregated the 5-min measurements to hourly observations and filled existing gaps of up to 1 year through multivariate regression using the five nearest stations. We aggregated the gap-filled hourly data to daily averages if at least 22 h of valid records exist for that day at a specific station. Finally, we aggregated the daily averages to monthly averages if a single month has at least 20 valid daily records. Keyword(s): humidity; Kilimanjaro; Temperature Related to: Appelhans, Tim; Mwangomo, Ephraim; Otte, Insa; Detsch, Florian; Nauss, Thomas; Hemp, Andreas (2016): Eco-meteorological characteristics of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. International Journal of Climatology, 36(9), 3245-3258, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552 Project(s): Kilimanjaro Research Group (KiLi) Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) (URI: http://www.dfg.de/en/), grant/award no. 107847609: Kilimanjaro Research Group (URI: https://gepris.dfg.de/project/107847609) Parameter(s): Binary Object (Binary) * PI: Nauss, Thomas (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-0960, nauss@staff.uni-marburg.de, http://www.umweltinformatik-marburg.de/) Binary Object (Media Type) (Binary (Type)) * PI: Nauss, Thomas (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-0960, nauss@staff.uni-marburg.de, http://www.umweltinformatik-marburg.de/) Binary Object (File Size) [Bytes] (Binary (Size)) * PI: Nauss, Thomas (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-0960, nauss@staff.uni-marburg.de, http://www.umweltinformatik-marburg.de/) License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Status: Curation Level: Basic curation (URI: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Curation_levels) Size: 4 data points Files: All files referred to in data matrix can be downloaded in one go as ZIP or TAR (PANGAEA user account required). To download single files, use the filename from data matrix appended to "https://download.pangaea.de/dataset/942820/files/". */ Binary Binary (Type) Binary (Size) [Bytes] rh200_kriging.zip application/zip 806.1 MBytes rh200_kriging_multi-year_average.zip application/zip 261.6 MBytes ta200_kriging.zip application/zip 819.5 MBytes ta200_kriging_multi-year_average.zip application/zip 532.3 MBytes