3.22 VARIATION IN RAINFALL IN AFRICA

Data ID

Description:

Variation in rainfall in Africa, expressed as the co-efficient of variation, in %

Chapter:

3 Climate

File name:

Variation in rainfall in Africa

File type:

ArcView shapefile

Geographical area:

Africa

Keywords:

rainfall

variation

Notes on data, analysis and

Shapefile created from a scanned figure in Agnew, C & E Anderson. 1992. Water resources in the arid realm. Routledge,

compilation:

London.

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

Low

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

VARIATION

Variation in ranfall, in 4 categories, ranging from less than 20% to

more than 40%

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Agnew, C & E Anderson. 1992. Water resources in the arid realm. Routledge, London.

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted