858d7471-a4a2-0944-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-24 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607445 GRACE, GLDAS and piezometric data for Makutapora and Limpopo Basins (NERC grant NE/M008932/1) 2019-04-01 revision http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607445 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). Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha University College London Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction South Wing Room no. 40 Gower Street London WC1E 6BT not available pointOfContact Professor Richard Taylor University College London Department of Geography Gower Street London WC1E 6BT not available principalInvestigator notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/858d7471-a4a2-0944-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Groundwater BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions no limitations 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. otherRestrictions 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. Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation SOUTH AFRICA [id=670000] British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation TANZANIA [id=685000] ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision ZA ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision ZAF 25.0000 32.0500 -26.5000 -22.1000 35.6000 36.0200 -6.0800 -5.6000 2002-08 2016-07 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) Microsoft Excel witheld https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1751-2019 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) information https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item127007 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false 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 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false 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.