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Surface and Meteorological Data of Protodune Dynamics at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA in March and April 2023

This dataset includes raw point cloud data from repeat terrestrial laser scans (TLS) for measuring early-stage protodunes developing, migrating and eroding on a moist surface in the Medano Creek Area, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA. As well as the TLS data, additional measurements include wind speed with a CSAT 3D sonic anemometer and sediment transport using a Sensit and Wenglor fork sensors.

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Date (Creation)
2025-05-20
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608419
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
  Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve - Andrew Valdez
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Aeolian
  • Saltation
  • Beaches
  • Moisture
  • Terrestrial science
  • Citable Data
  • Lasers
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • Citable Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
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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]"
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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
COLORADO [id=794000]

Date (Creation)
1979

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Begin date
2023-03-26
End date
2023-04-02
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Nield, J. M., Wiggs, G. F. S., Baddock, M. C., Valdez, A. (2025). Surface and meteorological data of protodune dynamics at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, USA in March and April 2023. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/02645c05-f0e9-49d4-846f-4f6465e3e6f1

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dataset Dataset
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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 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 wind direction. 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. The CSAT 3D sonic anemometer was positioned 0.24 m above the surface. The Sensit was positioned at the ground surface. The Wenglors were 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
35d005cc-051e-e1d7-e063-3050940ae6ec XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13
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/13608419
 
 

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