Skip to contents

A dataset containing Rain, maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed, sunshine hours, and minimum and maximum Relative Humidity for Kumasi, Ghana. The record from 1960 to 2015 is the historical station series (see kumasi1960_2015); from 2016 onward it is extended with NASA POWER daily data retrieved through weather (latitude 6.72, longitude -1.60). For the appended period the incoming shortwave radiation Rs is converted to sunshine hours n with the inverse Angstrom-Prescott relation so that the whole series keeps a single, homogeneous set of columns and can be passed to ETo and kc without special handling. Regenerate or extend it at any time by re-running weather() for the new dates and re-appending.

Format

A data frame with 8 variables:

DOY

Calendar date [YYYY-mm-dd]

Tmax

Maximum Temperature [oC]

Tmin

Minimum Temperature [oC]

RHmin

Minimum Relative Humidity [per cent]

RHmax

Maximum Relative Humidity [per cent]

n

sunshine hours

uz

wind speed [m/s]

P

Daily precipitation [mm]

Author

George Owusu