{"id":7221,"date":"2016-05-31T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:37:06","slug":"recovering-rwandas-missing-15-years-of-weather-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/recovering-rwandas-missing-15-years-of-weather-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Rwanda&#8217;s missing 15 years of weather records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Public Radio<\/em> has an interesting story about efforts to rebuild Rwanda&#8217;s long-term climate record. \u00a0Most stations were destroyed and records lost in the civil war which has torn apart the country, leaving a large gap in the historical record. \u00a0The story describes some scientists&#8217; efforts to find the missing data and rebuild the record in the face of murdered observers and mangled stations, while the country focused on meeting many other basic needs as it recovered from the war. \u00a0Surface observations can never be replaced by satellite observations and models, so maintaining the long-term record is key to understanding long-term trends in climate. \u00a0You can read and listen to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2016\/05\/30\/478896860\/turns-out-you-do-need-a-weatherman-to-know-which-way-the-wind-blew?utm_source=npr_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20160530&amp;utm_campaign=npr_email_a_friend&amp;utm_term=storyshare\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7222\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Rwanda_maize_lo_4108178537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7222\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Rwanda_maize_lo_4108178537-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Neil Palmer, CIAT, via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Rwanda_maize_lo_4108178537-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Rwanda_maize_lo_4108178537-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Rwanda_maize_lo_4108178537.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Neil Palmer, CIAT, via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio has an interesting story about efforts to rebuild Rwanda&#8217;s long-term climate record. \u00a0Most stations were destroyed and records lost in the civil war which has torn apart the country, leaving a large gap in the historical record. \u00a0The story describes some scientists&#8217; efforts to find the missing data and rebuild the record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7223,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions\/7223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}