GRACE, GLDAS and piezometric data for Makutapora and Limpopo Basins (NERC grant NE/M008932/1)
Monthly time-series data of GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) total terrestrial water storage (TWS), GLDAS (Global Land Data Assimilation System) soil moisture, surface water (surface runoff), snow water storage, and basin-aggregated observations from piezometric data for the Makutapora Basin (Tanzania) and Limpopo Basin (South Africa).
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- Date (Revision)
- 2019-04-01
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607445
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University College London
Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha
not available
Point of contact University College London
Professor Richard Taylor
not available
Principal investigator
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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NGDC Deposited Data
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Groundwater
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NERC_DDC
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- Other restrictions
- 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.
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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.
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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
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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SOUTH AFRICA [id=670000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Geographic identifier
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TANZANIA [id=685000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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ZA
ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision
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ZAF
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision
- Begin date
- 2002-08
- End date
- 2016-07
- Supplemental Information
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Makutapora Basin, Tanzania (centre coordinates: longitude 35.75 and latitude -5.9) Limpopo Basin (South Africa) (centre coordinates: longitude 29.42 and latitude -23.39)
Reference System Information
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Name Version MS Excel
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1751-2019
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item127007
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- Statement
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Data and methods for GRACE and GLDAS land surface model data processing are described in the paper, "The El Niño event of 2015–2016: climate anomalies and their impact on groundwater resources in East and Southern Africa" published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
Metadata
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- 858d7471-a4a2-0944-e054-002128a47908 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-05
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
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