Gro for GooD Rainfall Data from 23 Manual Rain Gauges, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

The dataset consists of daily rainfall data for 23 manual rain gauge stations installed by Gro for GooD project within and about the study area. The installed stations covering four river catchments name Ramisi River, Mukurumudzi River, Mtawa River and Mwachema River in Kwale County. The dataset period is from January 2016 to November 2018. Gro for GooD: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development

Date (Creation): 2019-08-07

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607496

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	Calvince Wara	not available	Originator
Rural Focus Ltd	Mike Thomas	not available	Originator
University of Oxford	Jacob Katuva	not available	Originator
University of Oxford	Patrick Thomson	not available	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Rainfall
NGDC Deposited Data
Surface waters
Groundwater
Water

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: 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.

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

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: 2015-12-31

End date: 2018-11-30

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#item129587

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: : Stations were instrumented with CM1016 manual plastic rain gauges (climemet.com) - funnel diameter of 100mm and internal measuring cylinder calibrated at 0.5mm, capacity 25mm. External cylinder maximum capacity 225mm. The gauges are mounted on posts with collector rim at 0.7m above ground level. Instruments were installed in collaboration with Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) under Ministry of Water, Environment and Natural Resources. Field Monitors were recruited and trained to take readings at 9:00 am daily by both Rural Focus Ltd and KMD and record data in KMD rainfall data format. Rainfall record sheet were collected monthly and quarterly analysed for quality (homogeneity and consistency based on Double Mass Curve techniques and visual inspection compared to nearby stations. Missing data is denoted with -99. A clear distinction is made between day of record and day of rain.