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Groundwater flow model of aquifer system, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

The download .rar file contains a groundwater model of the coastal aquifer in Kwale County, Kenya (ModelMuse Text File) produced by Dr Nuria Ferrer and Dr Albert Folch at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The model can be used to explore future climate and groundwater abstraction scenarios to provide management recommendations. The download does not include proprietary abstraction data from industry project partners, thus running the model provided here will not reproduce published research findings. The file named”np67IH.bhd” are the initial heads file required to run the model.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2019-10-17
Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607541

 

University of Oxford

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Dr R A Hope

(

School of Geography and the Environment

)

Oxford

,

OX1 3QY

,
 

University of Oxford

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Dr R A Hope

(

School of Geography and the Environment

)

Oxford

,

OX1 3QY

,
 

University of Oxford

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Nancy Gladstone

(

Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

)

Oxford

,

OX1 3QY

,
 

University of Nairobi

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Dan Olago

(

Department of Geology

)

Nairobi

,

Kenya

 

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Núria Ferrer


 

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Albert Folch


 

Rural Focus Ltd

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Mike Lane


 

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Daniel Fernàndez Garcia


Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Models

  • Groundwater

  • Simulation

Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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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]"
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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.

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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]"

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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KE

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

Extent

KEN

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

Extent

KENYA [id=687000]

Dataset Reference Date ()
1979

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Begin date
2010-01-01
End date
2017-10-30
 

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Distribution Information

Data format
  • ModelMuse Text File stored in .rar file

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Data
 
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non geographic dataset

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
Explanation

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Degree

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Explanation

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

Degree
Statement

Model has been constructed using the MODFLOW-2005 Package and graphical interface ModelMuse (Winston, 2009). MODFLOW is a 3D code that solves the finite-difference method and includes modules to simulate steady-state or transient groundwater flow in confined/unconfined aquifers (Harbaugh, 2005). A steady-state simulation has been conducted to set up initial conditions, as compared with field data. The transient simulation covers an eight year period from 2010 to November 2017. Monthly stress periods with 3 time steps in each have been adopted in the model simulation. Further details in paper: 1-Ferrer, N., Folch, A., Lane, M. et al. (2019). How does water-reliant industry affect groundwater systems in coastal Kenya? Science of the Total Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133634

Metadata

File identifier
957d1de7-8d46-535d-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
nonGeographicDataset
Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Metadata Date
2023-01-23
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

 

British Geological Survey


Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

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NOTTINGHAM

,

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

,

NG12 5GG

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United Kingdom

+44 115 936 3100
 
 

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