DATA SUMMARY

AWS (Automatic Weather Station) data at Thandwe, Myanmar

DOCUMENTATION

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Summary
This data set produces rainfall amount measurements. The instruments have been on the observational grass field of DMH (Department of Meteorology and Hydrology) office in Thandwe, Myanmar since May 2005 (now in progress). This site has been operated in JAMSTEC/IORGC research project. (DMH: Department of Meteorology and Hydrology)

Summary table
1) Data format
   ASCII text files
2) Spatial coverage & resolution
   Longitude:94.4E, Latitude:18.5N, Elevation:1m a.s.l.
3) Temporal covergage & resolution
   since May 2005, 0.5mm count x 4000 times
4) File size (total)
   ?KB

Citing data
http ://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/hcorp/data/

References & related publication

Wu, P., J.-I. Hamada, S. Mori, Y.I. Tauhid, M.D. Yamanaka, and F. Kimura, Diurnal variation of precipitable water over a mountainous area of Sumatra Island. J. Appl. Meteorol., 42, 1107-1115, 2003.

DATA CONTRIBUTOR & GROUP
Peiming Wu, Taichi Sasaki (Large-scale Hydrological Cycle Group)

PARAMETERS
RAINFALL

INSTRUMENTS
TIPPING-BUCKET RAIN GAUGE