UK Met Office Tropical African Model Output over the Lake Victoria Region

This data set includes a subset of output from the UK Met Office Tropical African Model over the HIGHWAY region around Lake Victoria. The model is run twice daily at 06 and 18 UTC at a horizontal resolution of approximately 4.4km and with 80 vertical levels. The following fields are included: three and six hourly precipitation amount, three hourly lightning flashes, instantaneous lightning flashrate, instantaneous precipitation rate, surface and vertical profiles (200, 500, 700, and 850mb) of wind components, temperature, and relative humidity and surface dew point temperature at hourly intervals from forecast hour 13 to 35. The data are in NetCDF format.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
    End:  2020-02-29T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2020-02-29T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 5.50000
Bounding Box South Lat -12.00000
Bounding Box West Long 28.80000
Bounding Box East Long 42.20000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format TAR/GNU Zip (.tar.gz/.tgz) (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 79160 MB
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Author Andrew Hartley
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2019-04-18T18:01:20
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/MS84-RMY3-P00E
Alternate Identifier 572.008
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:46:57Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::572.008
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Andrew Hartley. (2019). UK Met Office Tropical African Model Output over the Lake Victoria Region. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/MS84-RMY3-P00E. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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