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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)

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.

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English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2021-10-12
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607830
  University of Reading - Professor Rosalind Cornforth ( Department of Meteorology )
Reading , RG6 6AR ,
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford , WALLINGFORD , OXON , OX10 8BB , United Kingdom
01491 838800
01491 692345
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Rivers
  • Soil water
  • Groundwater
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  • NERC_DDC
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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
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BF

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

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BFA

Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

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BURKINA FASO [id=626000]

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1979

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2016-01-01
End date
2019-12-31
 

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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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.

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cf68557d-53a3-3a20-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2023-03-30
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
 
 

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