Weekly Precipitation from Weather Monitoring Stations for Barranquilla, Colombia, 2000-2022

This dataset is part of the ESCALA (Study of Urban Health and Climate Change in Informal Settlements in Latin America) project that was funded by the Lacuna Fund of the Meridian Institute https://lacunafund.org/. The data were provided by IDEAM (in Spanish: Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales https://www.datos.gov.co/browse?category=Ambiente+y+Desarrollo+Sostenible&q=Instituto+de+Hidrolog%C3%ADa%2C+Meteorolog%C3%ADa+y+Estudios+Ambientales&sortBy=relevance&utf8=%E2%9C%93&page=1&pageSize=20). Weather stations were selected based on data availablity for the period of study. 1. The weather stations had different temporal coverage, data were filtered for the period of interest. 2. Daily data were aggregated into epidemiological weeks and the following variables were generated for each epidemiological week: sum, min, mean, max, and number of rainy days. 3. Aggregated weekly data were reported only for weeks with complete data (7 days), otherwise a NaN was reported.