Table 2.
Summary of data from 104 global historical climate network (GHCN) stations for Central African countries
| Country | Station | Start date | End date | Days | Area (km2) | Density (per 100,000 km2) |
Recordings with data |
Coverage (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 7 | 1/28/53 | 10/20/15 | 22,179 | 1,246,700 | 0.56 | 15,703 | 10.11 |
| Burundi | 2 | 1/1/50 | 12/31/89 | 14,609 | 27,834 | 7.19 | 27,941 | 95.63 |
| Central African Republic | 17 | 1/1/50 | 10/20/15 | 24,033 | 622,984 | 2.73 | 160,597 | 39.31 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1/1/48 | 10/20/15 | 24,764 | 475,442 | 1.05 | 16,702 | 13.49 |
| Chad | 11 | 1/1/50 | 10/20/15 | 24,033 | 1,284,000 | 0.86 | 109,779 | 41.53 |
| Democratic Republic of Congo |
13 | 2/18/73 | 10/20/15 | 15,584 | 2,344,858 | 0.55 | 4278 | 2.11 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 2 | 5/1/96 | 10/20/15 | 7111 | 28,051 | 7.13 | 568 | 3.99 |
| Gabon | 19 | 1/1/50 | 10/20/15 | 24,033 | 267,668 | 7.10 | 15,5103 | 33.97 |
| Republic of Congo | 15 | 3/1/47 | 10/20/15 | 25,070 | 342,000 | 4.39 | 151,355 | 40.25 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 6/29/73 | 10/20/15 | 15,453 | 26,338 | 3.80 | 3513 | 22.73 |
| South Sudan | 4 | 1/1/50 | 10/20/15 | 24,033 | 619,745 | 0.65 | 34,871 | 36.27 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1/1/26 | 12/31/86 | 22,279 | 241,550 | 3.31 | 123,329 | 69.20 |
Note: Coverage is the number of days of temperature and precipitation observations divided by the total number of days of recording possible, calculated as the number of days between the first and last recording dates (days) multiplied by the total number of stations for each country (station). Area estimates are from the United Nations Statistics Division (unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic).