The digitised data includes parameters such as rainfall, maximum and minimum temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, and visibility.
Most of the data digitised was taken from paper records for weather stations and is suitable for calculating long term climate trends, which require a minimum of 30 years of data to be included in computer climate models.
VanKIRAP Climatologist Neil Molosu said data digitization and quality controls contribute towards improving coverage, accuracy, and quality of climate information services (CIS) tools used by VMGD.
