Annual Mean temperature of Africa countries for past 50 years?

Question

I'am trying to find annual mean temperature data for all countries in Africa for past 50 years.

The data should not be mean of the entire 20 years, but should be yearly mean.
Can somebody please redirect me to a good source of data?

This is for research work.

This question looks like it would be better researched/asked at [opendata.se]. — PolyGeo, Jul 28 '15 at 20:39
Thanks. I am new here. I will also post this question to OpenData. — , Jul 28 '15 at 20:40
The World Bank is usually a good source for stuff like this. I don't think you'll get data from 50 years back, though — , Jul 28 '15 at 20:46
iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP-NCAR/.CDAS-1/.MONTHLY/?Set-Language=en — , Jul 28 '15 at 21:05
It's not a good idea to use 'country' as the spatial entity. — , Jul 28 '15 at 21:07
I answered a question like this back in Feb. - http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/4629/how-can-i-get-temperature-data-for-each-country-annual — Andrew - OpenGeoCode, Jul 29 '15 at 14:52

user26631 · Answer 1 · 2015-08-12T09:24:18.467

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lots of atmospheric parameters can be found at (1979-2015): http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/

You can use zonal statistics with country polygons to obtain annual values per country. You can get country shapefiles at http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/

edited Aug 12 '15 at 09:24

answered Aug 11 '15 at 14:39

user26631

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