Fig. 1
Monthly and annual patterns of precipitation and temperature in Amboseli, Kenya. Temperatures were taken from analog min-max thermometers and precipitation measures were taken from a standard rain gauge. The location of the thermometers and rain gauges changed slightly over the years but, with one exception, were within 150 m of each other. (a,b) depict monthly patterns over the hydrological year, which runs from November to October. In (a), bar heights represent mean precipitation volume in each month and error bars represent standard deviations within months between hydrological years 1977 and 2023. In (b), points represent mean daily maximum (red) and minimum (blue) temperatures and error bars represent standard deviations within months between hydrological years 1977 and 2022. (c) depicts total annual precipitation from hydrological years 1977 to 2023. (d) depicts annual average minimum and maximum temperature from hydrological years 1977 to 2022. In (c), the height of the bars represents the total amount of rainfall in each hydrological year. In (d), the black points on the red and blue lines depict the mean maximum and minimum daily temperature, respectively, in each hydrological year. Annual mean temperature values were only included in (d) if all data for a given hydrological year were collected by the same weather station.
