Rainfall maps from commercial microwave link data for Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

<p>Rainfall maps from commercial microwave link data for Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, accompanying a submission to <em>Journal of Hydrometeorology </em>(<em>JHM</em>) are store in&nbsp;<em>CML_rainfall_maps_Ougadougou.nc</em> . The generation of these rainfall maps is described in the manuscript.</p> <p>The data are stored in a netCDF file with the dimensions <em>x</em>, <em>y</em> and <em>time</em>, <em>longitude</em> and <em>latitude</em> values defining the grid, and the variable <em>rain_rate </em>holding the rainfall maps.</p> <ul> <li>The dataset covers the area over Ouagadougou (longitude: -1.61 to -1.415 and latitude: 12.27 to 12.45) in a regular space grid of 72x79 with 0.55 km grid size.</li> <li>The temporal resolution is 5 minutes for the period from 2020-06-29 to 2020-10-10 <em> </em></li> </ul> <p>As supplementary material an animation (<em>Animation_2020_08_21.mp4</em>) showcases two rainfall events from 18:30 to 21:00 UTC on 2020-08-21.</p>