Mean Monthly Water Temperature of Africa (Annual)

Predicted mean monthly water temperature (annual). Predictions based on air temperature estimates by the Center for resource and Enviornmental Studies (CRES) which can be interpreted as estimates of standard means for the period of 1920 to 1980 and mean annual wind velocity estimated by UNEP/GRID.

The WATTMP_MN grid data layer is comprised of 1450x1380 derivative raster water temperature features derived based on 0.05 degrees resolution data originally from CRES/FAO.

The layer provides nominal analytical/mapping at 1:20 000 000. Madagascar not included.

The following layers are also vailable for download:

Majority Monthly Water Temperature (Annual)

Maximum Monthly Water Temperature (Annual)

Median Monthly Water Temperature (Annual)

Minimum Monthly Water Temperature (Annual)

Minority Monthly Water Temperature (Annual)

Range of Monthly Water Temperature (Annual)

Monthly Water Temperature from January to December

Acronyms and Abbreviations:

CRES - Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University (ANU);

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;

UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

This map is part of two publications entitled:

"Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. 1. Concepts and application case studies CIFA Technical Paper. No.33, Part 1. Rome, FAO. 2007. 167p. "

"Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. 2. Technical manual and workbook. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 2. Rome, FAO. 2007. 308 p."

The primary AWRD interface, tool-sets and data integral to the function of the AWRD are distributed in two DVD's accompanying CIFA No. 33, Part 2, and are also available for download from FAO's GeoNetwork and GISFish GIS portals.

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