cf68557d-53a3-3a20-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 2026-04-14 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607830 WGS 84 (EPSG::4326) Physical measurements of soil moisture, river stage, and groundwater levels from Ghana and Burkina Faso 2016-2019 (NERC Grant NE/M008827/1, NE/M008983/1) 2021-10-12 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607830 The datasets consist of soil moisture (hourly-weekly), river stage (1 min), and groundwater level (hourly) collected as part of the BRAVE project (NE/M008827/1 and NE/M008983/1) to understand the resilience of boreholes in low-yielding aquifers in the River Volta Basin to climate. The data were collected from physical observatories in Sanon (Burkina Faso) and Aniabisi (Ghana). Soil moisture data were logged hourly beneath contrasting land uses and roaming soil moisture surveys were also undertaken across a wider access tube array. River stage was monitored at the catchment outlet in Sanon and groundwater levels were measured in both catchments. Professor Rosalind Cornforth University of Reading Department of Meteorology Reading RG6 6AR not available principalInvestigator Enquiries British Geological Survey 01491 838800 01491 692345 Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford WALLINGFORD OXON OX10 8BB United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey 01491 838800 01491 692345 Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford WALLINGFORD OXON OX10 8BB United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk originator Enquiries British Geological Survey 01491 838800 01491 692345 Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford WALLINGFORD OXON OX10 8BB United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk principalInvestigator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/cf68557d-53a3-3a20-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Rivers Groundwater Soil water BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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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]" vector English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision BF ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision BFA British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation BURKINA FASO [id=626000] -1.7800 -0.9000 10.8400 12.4700 2016-01-01 2019-12-31 Comma-separated values (CSV) witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey 01491 838800 01491 692345 Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford WALLINGFORD OXON OX10 8BB United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item169025 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 Soil moisture data (m3/m3) were collected from 2m access tubes using Sentek logging EnviroSCAN probes or Diviner 2000 roaming surveys. River stage was monitoring in Sanon using an In-Situ Rugged Troll 100 in a stilling well logging at a 1 minute frequency. Groundwater levels were monitoring using In-Situ Rugged Troll 100s that were validated using manual dip measurements to convert them to metres below datum.