Date (Creation)

2025-05-20

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608417

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Lasers
• Gravel
• Saltation
• Terrestrial science
• Aeolian

dataCentre

• NGDC Deposited Data
• Citable Data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

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

EnglishEnglish

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

NAMIB DESERT [id=667000]

Date (Creation)

1979

Begin date

2023-09-08

End date

2023-12-02

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

• Microsoft Excel (XLSX) ( witheld )

• Text file (TXT) ( witheld )

• XYZ ( witheld )

OnLine resource

Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

OnLine resource

Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

Nield, J. M., Wiggs, G. F. S., Baddock, M. C., Nangolo, S. N., Huck, R. A., Rambert, C. (2025). Surface and meteorological data of protodune dynamics at Helga's interdune area (north), Gobabeb, Namib Desert, Namibia from September to December 2023. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/d5675759-de19-4d47-ba5d-f8fb323bdc24

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

Leica P50 and P20 TLS was used to collect the topographic measurements. The scan resolution varied between 0.8 and 3.1 mm at 10 m. The local coordinate system has been orientated to the dominant wind direction of 185o. The dataset has been extracted in boxes to make the data manageable and details of the lower x and y coordinates for each box are included in the dataset. Data collected over several months were merged using three fixed targets with a mean absolute error of 1 mm. Alongside the whole surface measurements between September and December, several high resolution temporal measurements were collected on the 11th September. The CSAT 3D sonic anemometer was positioned 0.24 m above the surface. The Sensit was positioned at the ground surface. See Delorme et al. (2023; doi:10.1029/2022GL101553) for more details of similar methodology.

File identifier

35b97579-4208-0588-e063-3050940ac6d8 XML

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2026-05-06

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608417