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NEW: Amazon Forest and Savanna Lands

A guide to the climates, vegetation, landscapes, and soils of central tropical South America

Irrigation book for Santa Cruz:

Contact Information:

Telephone (New Zealand):       
+64 3 364 2378

FAX (New Zealand):

+64 3 364 2758

 
Postal address (Dr Tom Cochrane):  
Dept. of Civil and Nat. Resources
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch,
New Zealand
 
www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/cochrane

 

Climatic data is available for the Amazon region and south America from various government agencies, institutions, and organizations.  We present here some of the data we have been able to compile and organize for Bolivia, Peru, Brasil and Paraguay.  Please acknowledge usage of data and if you come across other sources of climatic or hydrological data please send us the links or data () . Thanks!

Historical data from the WMO (World Meteorological Organization / NOAA).  This data has been compiled from published data that was available in the internet at one time at the following address: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/pub/data/ghcn/v2/ghcnftp_zipd.html  - contains precipitation and temperature data from around the world.

The data consists of historical precipitation data for a variety of stations as shown in the first picture (a) .  The second picture (b) shows an interpolation of historical precipitation in Bolivia and Peru:

(a)    (b)       (click to view full size)

Compiled data for Brasil:

bulletExcel file with historical averages and coordinates
bulletText file(rtf) with monthly data for each station (values in mm*10)
bulletShape files (zipped ArcView files) with historical yearly and monthly averages

Compiled data for Bolivia/Peru/Paraguay:

bulletExcel file with historical averages and coordinates for Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay (values in mm)
bulletExcel file with monthly data for each station in Bolivia (values in mm *10)
bulletText file with monthly data for each station in Peru and Paraguay (values in mm*10)
bulletShape files (zipped  ArcView files) with historical yearly and monthly averages

Temperature data is also available and we will put it online as soon as we compile it.

Climate data for the Amazon from Land in Tropical America

bulletShape files (zipped ArcView files) of data from Land in Tropical America (T.T. Cochrane) that includes MAI, Humidity, etc.

Data for Bolivia:  Various sources of data have been found and compiled for Bolivia.  Most data in Bolivia is maintained (collected) by SENAMHI (which charges for data -- about 10bs per data point) and AASANA.  Historical data (precipitation and temperature) has been collected by the WMO from these agencies and is included in the data presented previously.  Creation of isotherm and isohyets maps to denote historical annual temperature and precipitation has been done by FAO in the early 1990's (see pictures below).

 

bulletFAO Isohyets - zipped ArcView shape files
bulletFAO Isotherm - zipped ArcView shape files

Data for the Departamento de Santa Cruz:  The data presented below has been digitized and compiled from the Compendio Meteorologico del Departamento de Santa Cruz 1992.  Estimations of evapotranspiration and historical trends have been created using this data.  Map (a) shows historical precipitation (b) precipitation in January (c) April (d) July and (e) October of the Departamento de Santa Cruz.

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

bulletExcel file with historical climatic data for all stations in the Departamento de Santa Cruz.  This data includes wind velocity, wind direction, humidity, ETo, Temperature (min, max, mean)
bulletExcel file with historical precipitation data for all available stations in Santa Cruz.  Minimum, Maximum, and median precipitation and Standard Deviation.
bulletShape (zipped ArcView files) of historical precipitation of Santa Cruz.
bulletShape (zipped ArcView files) of precipitation (another one)
bulletShape (zipped ArcView files) of wind direction
bulletShape (zipped ArcView files) of wind velocity (km/hr)
bulletShape (zipped Arc View files) of minimum temperature
bulletShape (zipped Arc View files) of maximum temperature

Other data from Brasil:  The ANA (Agencia Nacional de Aguas) in Brasil maintains an active database of climatic and river data for stations in Brasil. Although its a little cumbersome to use, there is a wealth of data here:  http://hidroweb.ana.gov.br/HidroWeb/  

 

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                                 Last modified: July 23, 2010