| Title
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30+ Year Long Average Decadal Rainfall - Tabular data |
| Date
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7-06-2006 |
| Date type
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Creation: Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence
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| Edition
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First |
| Presentation form
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Digital table: Digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed,
especially in columns
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| Abstract
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Consolidated Table of 30+ Year Average Decadal Rainfall. The RFE_LAVG tabular data layer is comprised of 471688 derivative
raster precipitation features derived based on 8 kilometers data originally from EDC. The layer provides nominal analytical/mapping
at 1:3 500 000.
Acronyms and Abbreviations:
EDC - USGS EROS (Earth Resources Observation Systems) Data Center.
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| Purpose
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10 day cumulative Meteosat-GTS interpolated daily rainfall. |
| Status
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Completed: Production of the data has been completed
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| Maintenance and update frequency
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As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary
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| Descriptive keywords
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precipitation , climatology , African Water Resource Database , AWRD , ancillary vector , table (theme). |
| Descriptive keywords
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Africa (place). |
| Access constraints
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Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a
literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or
label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist,
distributor
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| Use constraints
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Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a
literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or
label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist,
distributor
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| Spatial representation type
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Text, table: Textual or tabular data is used to represent geographic data
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| Language
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English |
| Character set
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UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
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| Topic category code
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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere |
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| Supplemental Information
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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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