Weather Service rainfall records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	South African Weather Service / ARC
Coverage	1917-2009
Works using it	2

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Source Archives.

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Dinkelman (2012)	South African Weather Service monthly rainfall data, weather station level	1920-2009	Aggregated to district-year rainfall totals to construct the Standardized Precipitation Index and the binary drought indicator (SPI below -1.5).
Wessels (2011)	Rainfall surfaces (gridded rainfall data)	1985-2003	Used with NDVI to compute vegetation production per unit rainfall and to separate human-induced degradation from drought effects.