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Form-flow-saltation dynamics of aeolian sand ripples at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA and the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023

This dataset includes processed aeolian ripple and meteorological data from raw data sets available in Nield et al. (2025; 2023a; 2023b) from field sites at 1) Medano Creek Area, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA and 2) the Huab Dune Field, Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast, Namibia. Nield, J. M., M. C. Baddock, and G. F. S. Wiggs (2025), Surface and Meteorological Data of Ripples, Saltation and Protodune Dynamics at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA in March and April 2023, (dataset), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, doi:10.5285/4b86b7a5-51ee-47b8-836d-a72cfd2be26b. Nield, J. M., M. C. Baddock, G. F. S. Wiggs, P. Delorme, A. Valdez, N. Wallum, and D. Goss (2023a), Surface and Meteorological Data of Ripple and Saltation Dynamics at Medano Creek Area, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA on 5-11th April 2022, (dataset), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, doi:10.5285/738dc233-3bd7-4174-aa98-8c33fc35f344. Nield, J. M., G. F. S. Wiggs, M. C. Baddock, and P. Delorme (2023b), Surface and Meteorological Data of Saltation and Ripple Dynamics at Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia 2014, 2016 and 2018, (dataset), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, doi:10.5285/cc1b2bd9-2099-4fea-a731-6b4cf3d4c2be.

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Date (Creation)
2025-08-08
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608491
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University of Southampton

Joanna Nield

not available

Originator

University of Oxford

Giles Wiggs

not available

Originator

University of Loughborough

Matthew Baddock

not available

Originator

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Andrew Valdez

not available

Originator

University of Oxford

Natasha Wallum

not available

Originator

University of Southampton

Daniel Goss

not available

Originator

École Normale Supérieure - PSL

Pauline Delorme

not available

Originator

University of Namibia

Martin H.T. Hipondoka

not available

Originator

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Jim Best

not available

Originator

University of Colorado Denver

Kenneth T. Christensen

not available

Originator

Astrin Biosciences

Nathaniel R. Bristow

not available

Originator

CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University

Philippe Claudin

not available

Originator

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Lasers

  • Aeolian

  • Saltation

  • NGDC Deposited Data

  • Citable Data

  • Terrestrial science

  • Aerodynamics

dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Citable Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
licenceOGL
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2014-08-06
End date
2023-04-04

Reference System Information

No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item189379

Data

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

https://doi.org/10.5285/3de63fc0-390f-451d-bcc1-c15e4ce78d40

Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass
No
Statement

Data has been processed using codes available in Nield et al. (2025). Raw data contained within Nield et al. (2025; 2023a; 2023b) includes terrestrial laser scanner (TLS), wind and transport measurements. Leica P50 and P20 TLS was used to collect the topographic measurements. Wind measurements were from a CSAT 3D sonic anemometer was positioned 0.24 m above the surface. Sediment measurements were from a Sensit positioned at the ground surface and Wenglors at 0.02 and 0.05 m above the surface. See Delorme et al. (2023; doi:10.1029/2022GL101553) for more details of similar methodology.

Metadata

File identifier
3c293079-510f-79fc-e063-3050940acc4f XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp
2026-01-14
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608491

 
 

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