Form-flow-saltation dynamics of aeolian sand ripples at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA and the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023
This dataset includes processed aeolian ripple and meteorological data from raw data sets available in Nield et al. (2025; 2023a; 2023b) from field sites at 1) Medano Creek Area, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA and 2) the Huab Dune Field, Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast, Namibia. Nield, J. M., M. C. Baddock, and G. F. S. Wiggs (2025), Surface and Meteorological Data of Ripples, Saltation and Protodune Dynamics at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA in March and April 2023, (dataset), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, doi:10.5285/4b86b7a5-51ee-47b8-836d-a72cfd2be26b. Nield, J. M., M. C. Baddock, G. F. S. Wiggs, P. Delorme, A. Valdez, N. Wallum, and D. Goss (2023a), Surface and Meteorological Data of Ripple and Saltation Dynamics at Medano Creek Area, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA on 5-11th April 2022, (dataset), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, doi:10.5285/738dc233-3bd7-4174-aa98-8c33fc35f344. Nield, J. M., G. F. S. Wiggs, M. C. Baddock, and P. Delorme (2023b), Surface and Meteorological Data of Saltation and Ripple Dynamics at Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia 2014, 2016 and 2018, (dataset), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, doi:10.5285/cc1b2bd9-2099-4fea-a731-6b4cf3d4c2be.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-08-08
Originator
University of Southampton
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Joanna Nield
(
School of Geography and Environmental Science
)
Highfield
,
Southampton
,
SO17 1BJ
,
Originator
University of Oxford
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Giles Wiggs
(
School of Geography and the Environment
)
South Parks Road
,
Oxford
,
OX1 3QY
,
Originator
University of Loughborough
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Matthew Baddock
(
Geography and Environment
)
Loughborough
,
LE11 3TU
,
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notApplicable notApplicable
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Lasers
- Aeolian
- Saltation
- Terrestrial science
- Aerodynamics
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
- 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
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- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 2014-08-06
- End date
- 2023-04-04
Reference System Information
No information provided.
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- OnLine resource
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Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
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Nield, J. M., Baddock, M. C., Wiggs, G. F. S., Best, J., Christensen, K. T., Delorme, P., Valdez, A., Bristow, N. R., Hipondoka, M. H. T., Goss, D. P., Wallum, N. S., Claudin, P. (2025). Form-flow-saltation dynamics of aeolian sand ripples at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA and the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/3de63fc0-390f-451d-bcc1-c15e4ce78d40
- Hierarchy level
- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
- Other
- non geographic 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
- Data has been processed using codes available in Nield et al. (2025). Raw data contained within Nield et al. (2025; 2023a; 2023b) includes terrestrial laser scanner (TLS), wind and transport measurements. Leica P50 and P20 TLS was used to collect the topographic measurements. Wind measurements were from a CSAT 3D sonic anemometer was positioned 0.24 m above the surface. Sediment measurements were from a Sensit positioned at the ground surface and Wenglors at 0.02 and 0.05 m above the surface. See Delorme et al. (2023; doi:10.1029/2022GL101553) for more details of similar methodology.
- File identifier
- 3c293079-510f-79fc-e063-3050940acc4f XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- non geographic dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-28
- 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/13608491
