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A century of groundwater accumulation in Pakistan and northwest India - dataset (NERC Grant NE/R000069/1)

The groundwater systems of northwest India and central Pakistan are amongst the most heavily exploited in the world. Groundwater has been monitored in the region for more than a century resulting in a unique long-term record of groundwater level change. The BGS has compiled groundwater level data from northwest India (Haryana and Punjab) and Pakistan (Punjab) between 1884 and 2020. The dataset, presented here, was compiled from various sources between 2018 and 2020. The excel file consists of two tabs both containing groundwater level data (in metres below ground level) and location information. In the first tab (Full_dataset), which contains the full dataset, there are 68783 rows of observed groundwater level data from 4028 individual sites. In the second tab (LTS) there are 7547 rows of groundwater level observations from 130 individual sites, which have water level data available for a period of more than 40 years and from which at least two thirds of the annual observations are available.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2021-07-13
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607785
  National Institute of Hydrology - Gopal Krishan
Roorkee , India
  International Waterlogging and Salinity Research Institute, Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority - Muhammed Basharat
Lahore , Pakistan
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Agriculture
  • Groundwater
  • Water resources
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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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]"
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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Extent
PAK

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

Extent
PAKISTAN [id=463000]

Dataset Reference Date ()
1979

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PK

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

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Begin date
1884-10-01
End date
2020-10-01
 

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
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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
More details on the dataset and methodology used to compile it can be found in the associated paper (**************).

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File identifier
c817913b-3753-5aef-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2023-03-19
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  British Geological Survey
United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
 
 

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