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Surface and meteorological data of barchan and protodune dynamics at the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023

This dataset includes raw point cloud and gridded data from repeat terrestrial laser scans (TLS) for measuring barchans and protodunes in the Huab Dune Field, Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast, Namibia. As well as the TLS data, additional measurements include wind speed, wind direction and sediment transport for some of the measurement period.

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Date (Creation)
2025-06-03
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608425
Originator
  University of Southampton - Joanna Nield ( School of Geography and Environmental Science )
Highfield , Southampton , SO17 1BJ ,
Originator
  University of Oxford - Giles Wiggs ( School of Geography and the Environment )
South Parks Road , Oxford , OX1 3QY ,
Originator
  University of Loughborough - Matthew Baddock ( Geography and Environment )
Loughborough , LE11 3TU ,
Originator
  University of Oxford - Natasha Wallum
Originator
  University of Oxford - Rosemary A. Huck
Originator
  École Normale Supérieure - PSL - Pauline Delorme
Originator
  University of Namibia - Martin H.T. Hipondoka
Originator
  University of Southampton - Peter R. Morgan
Originator
  University of Oxford - Jerome R. Mayaud
Originator
  University of Chile - Valentina Flores Aqueveque
Originator
  Desert Research Institute - John A. Gillies
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Aeolian
  • Barchan
  • Dunes
  • Lasers
  • Terrestrial science
dataCentre
  • Citable Data
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
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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
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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.
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
NA

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
NAM

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
NAMIBIA [id=665000]

Date (Creation)
1979

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Begin date
2014-09-01
End date
2023-09-16
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
  • Microsoft Excel (XLSX) ( witheld )

  • Text file (TXT) ( witheld )

  • XYZ ( witheld )

  • MATLAB (MAT) ( witheld )

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
OnLine resource
Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

Nield, J. M., Wiggs, G. F. S., Baddock, M. C., Hipondoka, M. H. T., Delorme, P., Morgan, P. R., Mayaud, J. R., Huck, R. A., Wallum, N. S., Flores Aqueveque, V., Gillies, J. A. (2025). Surface and Meteorological Data of Barchan and Protodune Dynamics at the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023 [Data set]. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/F7D18A98-9CD5-4B35-B42D-ED9F5AFD944D. (2025). Surface and meteorological data of barchan and protodune dynamics at the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/f7d18a98-9cd5-4b35-b42d-ed9f5afd944d

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dataset Dataset
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dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

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
No
Statement
Leica TLS was used to collect the topographic measurements of barchans and protodunes. The scan resolution varied between 0.8 and 3.1 mm at 10 m. The local coordinate system has been orientated north. The dataset has been extracted in a box around the bedform in the year it was measured and details of the lower x and y coordinates for each box are included in the dataset. Data collected over several years were merged using fixed rebar poles. See Delorme et al. (2023; doi:10.1029/2022GL101553) for more details of similar methodology.
File identifier
36e76d59-93ad-4365-e063-3050940a2f8c XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2026-05-03
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/13608425
 
 

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