Gro for GooD project Chloride rainwater results, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

The data sets contain the monthly rainfall volume from manual rain gauge stations spread across the study area. There are 11 rainfall stations. The rain unit is mm. In addition, the dataset contains the chloride concentration in mg/l of the rainfall, for each month. Blank data (-) means data not available due to not enough rain volume, no rainfall or problems when transporting the samples from Kenya to Barcelona. The data available is only from April 2016 to November 2017. This data is useful to calculate the recharge volume by chloride mass balance (CMB) methodology. https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/11/307/2014/hessd-11-307-2014-print.pdf

Date (Creation): 2019-01-29

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607422

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Oxford	Dr R A Hope	not available	Principal investigator
University of Oxford	Nancy Gladstone	not available	Point of contact
Rural Focus Ltd	Mike Thomas	not available	Originator
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Núria Ferrer	not available	Originator
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Albert Folch	not available	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Ground water recharge
Chlorides
Rainfall
NGDC Deposited Data

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Other constraints: no limitations

Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

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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

Geographic identifier: KE
ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: KEN
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: KENYA [id=687000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 2016-04-01

End date: 2017-11-30

Unique resource identifier: Arc 1960 / UTM zone 37S (EPSG::21037)

Distribution format

Name	Version
MS Excel

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item125757

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/853667/

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: 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: Eleven (11) stations were carefully selected by researchers to adequately cover the study area's upper middle and lower catchment. The rainwater samples for each of the 11 rain gauge stations were collected in 2L and 1L HDPE (High-density polyethylene) bottles with tight lid (to avoid loss through evaporation) by trained and supervised Field Monitors (FM). Samples from each location were combined for each month. Monthly integrated rainwater samples were collected for all stations every end month by Data Technician and brought to the field office located in Msambweni where integrated samples were resampled into three 15ml bottles for each site and month. These were stored at room temperature for transit to the laboratory for chloride analysis. The rain samples were processed by the Catalan Institute of Water Research (ICRA) in Spain, using ionic chromatography.