Annual total rainfall amount at Gobabeb, Namibia

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A six-decade-long dataset of the monthly and annual rainfall amount from 1962 to 2023 at Gobabeb, Namibia was compiled based on literature-derived dataset, public-available meteorological observations, and our measurement records. Monthly rainfall data at Gobabeb from September 1962 to December 2002 is available at Henschel and Seely (2008, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.11.015), and daily rainfall data during 2003-2014 was recordedavailable at the Gobabeb − Namib Research Institute. The daily rainfall data from October 2014 to December 2023 is available via https://sasscalweathernet.org/w_datarequest_we.php?MIsoCode=NA&MMCS=0#StationAnchor.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.981204
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Related Identifier IsDerivedFrom https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.11.015
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Provenance
Creator Li, Yue ORCID logo; Marais, Eugene; Wang, Lixin
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 212 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (15.040 LON, -23.560 LAT); Namib Desert, Namibia