Overview

Dataset Title	Average Annual Daytime and Nighttime Land Surface Temperature (LST) from 2001 to 2023 for Africa	?
Abstract	The average annual daytime LST data from 2001 to 2023 was derived from MODIS MOD11C3 V 6.1 Monthly Daytime Land Surface Temperature data (NASA, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/).	?
Topic Category	climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere	?

Data Quality

Lineage Statement

The average annual daytime LST data from 2001 to 2023 was derived from MODIS MOD11C3 V 6.1 Monthly Daytime Land Surface Temperature data (NASA, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/). The data is provided as a global HDF file. It is converted and extracted to daytime and nighttime WGS84 TIF format for Africa. It is moreover converted from Kelvin to Celsius.

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Dataset Description

Dataset Contact Person or Dataset Contact Organisation	SASSCAL - Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management	?
Dataset Date Type	revision	?
Dataset Reference Date	2023-05-01	?
Dataset Language	English	?
Dataset Character Set	utf7	?
Dataset Online Linkage	no Online Linkage	?
Dataset Format	GeoTIFF	?
Dataset Scope	dataset	?
Dataset Status	completed	?

Geographic Location

Geographic Description

Africa

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Spatial Resolution

Spatial Representation Type	grid	?
Equivalent Scale	-1	?

Coordinate System

EPSG

WGS 84 (lat/long)

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Temporal Extent

Begin	2001-01-01	?
End	2023-12-31	?

Additional Extent Information

Vertical Datum

WGS84

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Metadata

Metadata Contact Person	Thompson, Sylvia	?
Metadata Language	English	?
Metadata Character Set	utf8	?
Metadata Standard Name	ISO/DIS 19115 for Geographic information-Metadata /RBIS	?
Metadata Date Stamp	2023-09-06	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_7439 (Link)