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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.
 
Citation proposal
. Groundwater flow model of aquifer system, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/957d1de7-8d46-535d-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Creation )
2019
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607541

  Originator

University of Oxford - Dr R A Hope (School of Geography and the Environment )  
Oxford OX1 3QY

  Principal investigator

University of Oxford - Dr R A Hope (School of Geography and the Environment )  
Oxford OX1 3QY

  Point of contact

University of Oxford - Nancy Gladstone (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment )  
Oxford OX1 3QY

  Originator

University of Nairobi - Dan Olago (Department of Geology )  
Nairobi Kenya

  Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Núria Ferrer  

  Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Albert Folch  

  Originator

Rural Focus Ltd - Mike Lane  

  Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Daniel Fernàndez Garcia  

Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Models , Simulation , Groundwater
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Use constraints
otherRestrictions 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
Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.
Metadata language
English English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
KE

 

Date ( Revision )
2009

Geographic identifier
KEN

 

Date ( Revision )
2009

Geographic identifier
KENYA [id=687000]

 

Date ( Creation )
1979

N
S
E
W


Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::21037

 

Date ( Revision )
2005

Distribution format
  • ModelMuse Text File stored in .rar file ()

OnLine resource
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item130626  
Hierarchy level
model Model
Other
model

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
false

Conformance result

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
false
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

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
957d1de7-8d46-535d-e054-002128a47908   XML
Metadata language
English English
Hierarchy level
model Model
Hierarchy level name
model
Date stamp
2021-01-14
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3

  Point of contact

British Geological Survey  
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom

  +44 115 936 3100  
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607541
 
 

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