Daily precipitation data from 13 stations in the department of Tacna, Peru
Description
This file contains filtered and sorted daily precipitation data from the raw meteorological data, which only appears on the website, of SENAMHI (National Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Peru), for 13 stations (1: 'Jorge Basadre', 2: 'Calana', 3: 'Sama Grande', 4: 'Toquela', 5: 'Palca', 6: 'Paucarani', 7: 'Locumba', 8: 'Chuapalca', 9: 'Tarata', 10: 'Talabaya', 11: 'Sitajara', 12: 'Susapaya', 13: 'Challapalca'), with their respective UTM coordinates and geographic elevation; between the years 1963 and 2015. In column A we find the station ID number; in column B the date in day, month, year format; in column C the precipitation data in mm; in column D the east coordinate of the station; in column E the north coordinate of the station; and finally in column F we have the altitude at which the station is located in meters above sea level. Remember that Tacna is located in time zone 19S. This document was used to characterize, using clusters, the spatiotemporal dependence of extreme precipitation in the arid coastal region of Tacna. If you need filtered historical precipitation information for this region, this file can serve as a reference.
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Steps to reproduce
You must access the SENAMHI website, go to the Meteorological Data Download section, search for the department of interest on the map, find the meteorological station of interest, and download the raw data. After doing the same for each station in the selected department, you need to filter out null and negative values, temperatures, format the dates, and add the UTM coordinates for each station.
Institutions
- Universidad de Salamanca