Argentina

Basic: Other Countries, Data, Ownership, Disclaimer
Use: Manipulation, Display, Printing
Details: Variables and Units, Time Periods, Data Processing, Original Data, Links

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var        ann      MAM   JJA   SON   DJF      Jan   Feb   Mar   Apr   May   Jun   Jul   Aug   Sep   Oct   Nov   Dec

T mean     5.9      6.3   2.3   5.6   9.4      9.6   9.7   8.6   6.4   4.0   2.5   2.0   2.5   3.8   5.7   7.3   8.8

T min      2.0      2.6  -0.9   1.3   5.0      5.1   5.4   4.5   2.7   0.7  -0.6  -1.2  -1.0  -0.2   1.5   2.7   4.4

T max      9.8     10.2   5.6   9.8  13.8     14.1  14.0  12.8  10.3   7.4   5.6   5.1   6.0   7.7   9.9  11.8  13.4

T range    7.8      7.6   6.4   8.5   8.8      8.9   8.5   8.3   7.6   6.7   6.1   6.2   7.0   7.9   8.5   9.1   9.0

frost     10.7      9.9  17.2  10.8   4.9      4.8   4.5   6.6   9.3  13.8  16.5  18.2  17.0  14.2  10.9   7.3   5.4

precip     1.5      1.6   1.3   1.2   1.8      2.0   1.6   1.7   1.6   1.5   1.5   1.3   1.2   1.1   1.1   1.3   1.7

wetdays   10.4     10.5   9.6   9.7  11.9     12.7  10.7   9.8  10.7  11.1  10.3   9.7   8.8   8.4   9.6  11.0  12.4

vapour     7.5      7.9   6.0   7.0   9.2      9.5   9.6   9.2   7.6   6.9   6.1   5.9   6.0   6.3   6.9   7.7   8.6

cloud     63.8     62.8  60.7  64.4  67.1     67.0  64.6  63.8  62.4  62.1  59.2  61.1  61.9  61.9  63.1  68.2  69.7

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Data
The data set described here provides a country-by-country summary of the mean climate in the recent past (1961-1990). It should be noted that any single country may contain substantial spatial variations of climate within it, and that climate changes over time.

Ownership
These data may be freely used, provided they are attributed to the following source (available from www.tyndall.ac.uk):
Mitchell, T. D., and Hulme, M., 2000: A country-by-country analysis of past and future warming rates. Tyndall Centre Working Paper No. 1, November 2000, UEA, Norwich, UK, 6pp.

Disclaimer
The countries listed below include a variety of sovereign states, dependent territories, and disputed territories. No political statement is being made by the inclusion or exclusion of a particular territory, or by the labelling of a particular territory by a particular name.

Data Manipulation
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Variables and Units
T mean  daily mean temperature (degrees Celsius)
T min   daily minimum temperature (degrees Celsius)
T max   daily maximum temperature (degrees Celsius)
T range daily temperature range (degrees Celsius)
frost   frost day frequency (per month)
precip  precipitation (millimetres per day)
wetdays wet day frequency (per month)
vapour  vapour pressure (hectaPascals)
cloud   cloud cover (percentage)

Time Periods
Values are given for the year (ann), each season (e.g. March-April-May = MAM), and each month (e.g. January = Jan).

Data Processing
The original data took the form of a value for each month and each box on a 0.5 degree latitude / longitude grid. We assigned each box to a single country. For each country we calculated the mean of the values from its constituent grid boxes for each month in turn. The seasonal and annual values are the means of their constituent months.

Original Data
The original data is available from ipcc-ddc.cru.uea.ac.uk. It was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal:
New, M., Hulme, M., and Jones, P., 1999: Representing twentieth-century space-time climate variability. Part I: Development of a 1961-1990 mean monthly terrestrial climatology. Journal of Climate 12: 829-856.

Links
email: [e-mail]
web: www.uea.ac.uk/~f709762
institution: www.tyndall.ac.uk
other countries: countries.htm

Dr. T. D. Mitchell
July 2001

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