Genting Tea Estate Compiled Climate Dataset 1978-2023

Description

A compiled dataset containing key climatic variables collected at the Genting Tea Estate between 1978 to 2023. Key climatic variables that were collected include daily minimum and maximum temperatures (in celcius) and daily rainfall (in mm).Note for users:1. We started taking temperature measurements on the 1st July 2011, so do not be alarmed by the large number of NAs before that.

2. The dataset is only available upon the approval of Mr Simon Hok Kim Loong under the expectation that both Mr. Simon Hok and Dato Henry Barlow are included as co-authors on any publications that use this dataset.Contact Person:Mr. Simon Hok Kim Loong ([e-mail])

Funding

These data were collected as part of research funded by:

Genting Tea Estate-Dato Henry Barlow (Personal )

This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs.

Files

This dataset consists of 1 file: GTE_compiled_climate_data_1978-2023.xlsx

GTE_compiled_climate_data_1978-2023.xlsx

This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables:

Genting Tea Estate Compiled Climate Dataset 1978-2023

Worksheet: GTE_compiled_climate_data

Description: A compiled dataset containing key climatic variables collected at the Genting Tea Estate between 1978 to 2023.  Key climatic variables that were collected include daily minimum and maximum temperatures (in celcius) and daily rainfall (in mm).

Number of fields: 7

Number of data rows: 16435

year: Year of survey (type: replicate)

month: Month of survey (type: replicate)

day: Day of survey (type: replicate)

location: Location of weather station (type: location)

rain: Daily rainfall amount (type: numeric)

tmax: Maximum daily temperature (type: numeric)

tmin: Minimum daily temperature (type: numeric)

Extents

Date range: 1978-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Latitudinal extent: 3.3° to 3.4°

Longitudinal extent: 101.7° to 101.8°