GRACE, GLDAS and piezometric data for Makutapora and Limpopo Basins (NERC grant NE/M008932/1)

Monthly time-series data of GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) total terrestrial water storage (TWS), GLDAS (Global Land Data Assimilation System) soil moisture, surface water (surface runoff), snow water storage, and basin-aggregated observations from piezometric data for the Makutapora Basin (Tanzania) and Limpopo Basin (South Africa).

Date (Revision): 2019-04-01

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607445

Point of contact

University College London - Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha ( Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction )

South Wing Room no. 40 Gower Street , London , WC1E 6BT ,

Principal investigator

University College London - Professor Richard Taylor ( Department of Geography )

Gower Street , London , WC1E 6BT ,

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

NGDC Deposited Data
Groundwater

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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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

SOUTH AFRICA [id=670000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

TANZANIA [id=685000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

ZAF

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 2002-08

End date: 2016-07

Supplemental Information: Makutapora Basin, Tanzania (centre coordinates: longitude 35.75 and latitude -5.9) Limpopo Basin (South Africa) (centre coordinates: longitude 29.42 and latitude -23.39)

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Distribution format

MS Excel ()

OnLine resource: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1751-2019

OnLine resource: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item127007

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: 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 and methods for GRACE and GLDAS land surface model data processing are described in the paper, "The El Niño event of 2015–2016: climate anomalies and their impact on groundwater resources in East and Southern Africa" published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.