Groundwater level logger data for 7 wells , Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)

The data sets contain the daily record of meters of groundwater columns for 7 Heron logger transducers installed in different boreholes and wells in the study area. Missing data denoted -9999. The Barlog data for atmospheric pressure (Atmospheric Pressure data measured by Heron Barologger for the period of April 2014 to November 2018 at Munje Jabalini.) is also included. "Uncomp.HT.WTR. Above Transducer" corresponds to the actual pressure the dipperLog is measuring. "Barologger Data" corresponds to the Barlog data for atmospheric pressure at Munje Jabalini "Comp.Depth.WTR Below the Datum" is the "Depth below datum" entered in the logger setup less "Comp.HT.WTR. Above Transducer". The data was collected by Albert Folch and Nuria Ferrer (UPC), Mike Lane and Calvince Wara (Rural Focus Ltd). The PI on the Gro for GooD project was Prof. Rob Hope, University of Oxford.

Date (Creation): 2019-10-31

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607554

Principal investigator

University of Oxford - Dr R A Hope ( School of Geography and the Environment )

Oxford , OX1 3QY ,

Point of contact

University of Oxford - Nancy Gladstone ( Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment )

Oxford , OX1 3QY ,

Originator

Rural Focus Ltd - Mike Thomas

P.O. Box 1011-10400 , Nanyuki , Kenya

Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Núria Ferrer

Originator

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Albert Folch

Originator

University of Oxford - Jacob Katuva

Originator

University of Oxford - Patrick Thomson

Originator

Rural Focus Ltd - Mike Lane

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Groundwater
Monitoring
NGDC Deposited Data

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

KEN

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

KENYA [id=687000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 2016-04-01

End date: 2018-11-16

Unique resource identifier: Arc 1960 / UTM zone 37S (EPSG::21037)

Distribution format

MS Excel ()

OnLine resource: Data

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: Seven wells/boreholes were carefully selected in order to install a logger sensor (Heron logger transducer) to provide a continuous measure of groundwater level. The sites were selected according to the location in the study area, the security of the waterpoint, the geology, the aquifer unit (in this case all the logger are installed in the shallow aquifer< than 50-meter depth). First, the loggers were programmed to take a measurement every 15 minutes and then re-programmed to take a measurement every hour. Before installing the sensor, the groundwater level was measured with a dipper and the sensor was then installed below the groundwater level depth in order to avoid that the sensor remained submerged. It was necessary to download data before the logger memory was full, and then re-program again to continue measuring.