Climate Data Tool


The CDT is a tool that we shall use across FECT for work on data management. 

A description is on the OSF page at 

As you keep doing work, you can add to the OSF page
- maybe create a component and go on from there. 

Tufa Dinku and his collaborator at IRI - Rijas - put this together - they both have experience in working on Data in Ethiopia and Madagascar and have a Met Service past - while Tufa has worked on satellite data quality and data provision across Africa. I went for their seminar in Dec and Tufa sent his presentation file - shall find and put it the OSF page. 

We shall use it for our climate analysis related 
- storing daily met dept data harvested from the Met Site 
- organizing daily, weekly, quarterly and annual data from WER, QER etc. 

DV shall take the lead on this from the IT side - he has expertise in Data base. He shall look into how to upload the daily data from the met dept at first. 

CC shall need to pick up on this too. You can see how to store data downloaded from the DL as .nc 

Next in urgency are  AA, MR and TK 
If you have downtime, you can all please review this. 

Maybe PN can pick as well. 

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