Mwalusepo Sizah, Massawe Estomih S, Johansson Tino
icipe-African Insect Science for Food and Health, P.O. Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, Kenya; Department of General Studies, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 2958, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Department of M athematics, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35062, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Data Brief. 2016 Jul 26;8:1115-9. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.07.041. eCollection 2016 Sep.
Climate change is a global concern, requiring local scale spatially continuous dataset and modeling of meteorological variables. This dataset article provided the interpolated temperature, rainfall and relative humidity dataset at local scale along Taita Hills and Mount Kilimanjaro altitudinal gradients in Kenya and Tanzania, respectively. The temperature and relative humidity were recorded hourly using automatic onset (TH)HOBO data loggers and rainfall was recorded daily using GENERAL(R) wireless rain gauges. Thin plate spline (TPS) was used to interpolate, with the degree of data smoothing determined by minimizing the generalized cross validation. The dataset provide information on the status of the current climatic conditions along the two mountainous altitudinal gradients in Kenya and Tanzania. The dataset will, thus, enhance future research.
气候变化是一个全球关注的问题，需要局部尺度上空间连续的数据集以及气象变量建模。这篇数据集文章分别提供了肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚沿泰塔山和乞力马扎罗山海拔梯度的局部尺度上的插值温度、降雨量和相对湿度数据集。温度和相对湿度使用自动启动（TH）HOBO数据记录器每小时记录一次，降雨量使用通用（R）无线雨量计每天记录一次。薄板样条（TPS）用于插值，通过最小化广义交叉验证来确定数据平滑度。该数据集提供了肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚两个山区海拔梯度上当前气候条件状况的信息。因此，该数据集将加强未来的研究。
