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Groundwater level logger data for 7 wells , Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

The data sets contain the daily record of meters of groundwater columns for 7 Heron logger transducers installed in different boreholes and wells in the study area. Missing data denoted -9999. The Barlog data for atmospheric pressure (Atmospheric Pressure data measured by Heron Barologger for the period of April 2014 to November 2018 at Munje Jabalini.) is also included. "Uncomp.HT.WTR. Above Transducer" corresponds to the actual pressure the dipperLog is measuring. "Barologger Data" corresponds to the Barlog data for atmospheric pressure at Munje Jabalini "Comp.Depth.WTR Below the Datum" is the "Depth below datum" entered in the logger setup less "Comp.HT.WTR. Above Transducer". The data was collected by Albert Folch and Nuria Ferrer (UPC), Mike Lane and Calvince Wara (Rural Focus Ltd). The PI on the Gro for GooD project was Prof. Rob Hope, University of Oxford.
 
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. Groundwater level logger data for 7 wells , Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/974c9081-fc8b-4d34-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Creation )
2019
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607554

  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

Rural Focus Ltd - Mike Thomas  
P.O. Box 1011-10400 Nanyuki Kenya

  Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Núria Ferrer  

  Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Albert Folch  

  Originator

University of Oxford - Jacob Katuva  

  Originator

University of Oxford - Patrick Thomson  

  Originator

Rural Focus Ltd - Mike Lane  

Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Groundwater , Monitoring
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
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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

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W


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

 

Date ( Revision )
2005

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OnLine resource
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item131079  
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dataset Dataset
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dataset

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
Seven wells/boreholes were carefully selected in order to install a logger sensor (Heron logger transducer) to provide a continuous measure of groundwater level. The sites were selected according to the location in the study area, the security of the waterpoint, the geology, the aquifer unit (in this case all the logger are installed in the shallow aquifer< than 50-meter depth). First, the loggers were programmed to take a measurement every 15 minutes and then re-programmed to take a measurement every hour. Before installing the sensor, the groundwater level was measured with a dipper and the sensor was then installed below the groundwater level depth in order to avoid that the sensor remained submerged. It was necessary to download data before the logger memory was full, and then re-program again to continue measuring.

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File identifier
974c9081-fc8b-4d34-e054-002128a47908   XML
Metadata language
English English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2021-01-20
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/13607554
 
 

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