Daily climate and rainfall data for Niger 1983-2021, for use in SARRA-O crop simulation model

This dataset contains daily rainfall and climate data for Niger, that can be used as input of the SARRA-O spatialized crop simulation model. This data can be directly put as input of SARRA-O model to perform computations and obtain simulation results.

The archive contains :

• AgERA5 (doi:10.24381/cds.6c68c9bb) climatic data for Niger, with daily geotiff files for minimum, maximum, mean temperature (°C), reference evapotranspiration calculated with Hargraeves formula (mm), and solar radiation flux (kJ/m²) at 0.1° spatial resolution from 01/01/1981 to 31/12/2021
• TAMSAT v3.0 (doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.63) satellite rainfall estimation data for Niger (mm), with daily geotiff files at 0.0375° spatial resolution from 01/01/1983 to 31/12/2021
• CHIRPS v2.0 (doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66) satellite rainfall estimation data for Niger (mm), with daily geotiff files at 0.05° spatial resolution from 01/01/1981 to 31/12/2022

This data has been extracted from their original sources using the SARRA-data-downloader tool, on June 14th and 15th, 2023.

The applicable licences are the licences of the respective datasets.