3.12 AVERAGE MINIMUM TEMPERATURES DURING THE COLDEST MONTH

Data ID

Description:

Average minimum temperatures during the coldest month

Chapter:

3 Climate

File name:

Average minimum temperatures during the coldest month

File type:

ArcView shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

temperature

minimum

coldest

Notes on data, analysis and

Averages of the minimum temperature recorded each day for each month. For each station, the month with the lowest

compilation:

recorded average was used. These data were obtained from the Namibia Meteorological Services and other sources

(agro-ecological zone data; FAO ClimWAT- see excel file Fig 3.13). The polygons making up the shapefile were created

from hand drawn contours on a hard copy map. This manual interpolation approach was done by Peter Hutchinson

using point data from all available stations (over 40). Because the number of stations was small an automatic interpolation produced

nonsense results

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

Low

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

TEMP	Temperature in degrees C, in 6 classes ranging from 0-2 to 10-12

ID	unique ID for each polygon

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Namibia Meteorological Services

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted